Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...novelty awaiting in the years after college "will emerge in half-familiar forms," said Finley. ".... courage is the soul's willingness to accept novelty. It is the bed rock of all the virtues .... a watchdog at the door of the future to see that it stays open. But if courage waits and watches, love walks through the door. Only love can do so, because it alone has sufficient self-forgetfulness to venture freely beyond the self; hence it alone can see the world in its size and novelty...
Moments later, the stranger turned up at the front door. He was a dark, personable man in his middle 30s. He had a soft face, a faint British accent and a confidently friendly...
Vivat Regina. From the west door of the Abbey, Westminster's beadle led the ranking clergy of Great Britain to the foot of the altar steps. The orders of knighthood followed-Bath, Thistle and Garter-then the standards of the Commonwealth, led by Ceylon's (a lion grasping a sword), and concluded by the Royal Arms of England, borne by Montgomery of Alamein. Polity, law and religion-the triple stays of monarchy-were impressively represented in the persons of eight Prime Ministers (of Ceylon, Pakistan, India, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, Canada and Britain), two Archbishops (York...
...produce because U.S. moviemakers are primarily businessmen: "The Europeans are businessmen too, but they can handle art because their culture permits it. They're not in such a hurry-people take their time. They examine little things. A director will show you a guy going out his door, down a long hall, down the stairs, across the street, into a bar and into the men's room, just to let you know he's going to the men's room. Here, everything has to move fast or people won't like the movie...
Order Obeyed. In Columbus, Ohio, Richard McGlinchey, arrested for speeding, telephoned his wife from the police station, told her to hurry down with his bond money, met her at the door, learned she had just been arrested for speeding...