Word: disturbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Disturb. In 1930 a University College, Cork, professor asked permission to examine the diaries in connection with a biography he was writing. Back from the Home Office came the abrupt reply that was to be the policy of every government, Labor or Tory, since: "It was decided long ago not to make any official statement as to the existence or nonexistence of these diaries." In time another theory gained wide currency: that Casement had merely copied detailed descriptions of homosexual practices from the writings of a cruel employer in Peru whose exposure had helped win Casement his knighthood. According...
Spare the Hops. The fact is, said the report, that many of Britain's laws go back to the Middle Ages when it was far more serious to disturb the economic and social feudal order than to kill or maim a man. The maximum penalty for blaspheming, destroying hops, burning a haystack, or "maliciously damaging a river bank" is still life imprisonment. But the maximum penalty for forcing a child to live in a brothel is six months, and having sexual intercourse with a child or maiming a person by reckless driving can bring only two years. In spite...
Methodist Clergyman Johnson put it even more concretely: "I am contending that taxpaying parents who for conscience' sake, and in accord with the dictates of their religion, incur burdensome expenses by sending their children to religious schools, suffer a burdensome disadvantage which should disturb the conscience of the community . . . When Protestants-and other non-Catholics-are ready to view the school problem with sympathy for the economic predicament of a Catholic family of slender means, Protestant concern for religious freedom will be more convincing. On the other hand, there is widespread fear on the part of non-Catholics that...
...likely to come of Professor Murdock's recent expression of interest in Advanced Placement exams to exempt students from General Education courses. The compromise between "liberal education" and a modified distribution requirement which is the foundation of the General Education program is so uneasy that any attempt to disturb it will encounter opposition from some quarter, and any sort of exemption would require a revision of basic philosophy...
...first glance, the painting seems a straightforward depiction of the moment, two hours before the Crucifixion, when Christ was beaten, spat upon and mocked. But as in all Bosch paintings, the viewer becomes aware of overtones that disturb and echo in the mind...