Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intellectual life for the wrong reasons. The student is supposed to be a sort of fifth columnist with a double duty to perform. "He should use scholarly method to introduce into [the] sciences Catholic teachings which are really derived outside of them, and negatively he should refute, in scholarly fashion, the work done by those whose findings apparently are hostile to the faith." For too long, says Weigel, the American Catholic has regarded himself as a' member of a "beleaguered community" constantly on the defensive. "It is not too extreme to say that in many cases [Catholic] classes...
...With some expert guidance from Jonathan Routh, a British practical joker, a bunch of Cambridge students popped up in The Netherlands to help in their own fashion the State University of Leiden celebrate a hands-across-the-Channel Cambridge Week. They 1) opened an exhibition of rare Rembrandts and Hobbemas that turned out to be all fakes, 2) unveiled a statue that was really two live, scantily clad models painted white, 3) planted a memorial tree in the Pieterskerkplein that managed to grow a yard overnight, 4 ) showed a film on Cambridge life filled with native mud huts and elephants...
...always, the audience loved Tosca -undoubtedly more for Puccini's score than for the cold-war innovations. At any rate, Modernizer Gutman missed one trick recently used at a similar Tosca adaptation in Argentina. There, after killing Scarpia, Tosca, in expert thriller fashion, cut the telephone wires...
...director of a Vichy spa: "The Americans aren't coming, or the British either, since the Americans don't get bad livers from their colonies and the British don't get money from the Bank of England. But if you think Vichy is out of fashion, you couldn't be more wrong. We've never had such figures in our history...
...Reason, an engineer tries to dismiss a haunting dream that someone near and dear will die in an air crash on May 14; the story ends in Lady or the Tiger fashion, with the man waiting powerlessly to learn the fate of the plane that is carrying his wife and child to him-on May 14. The Kiss at Croton Falls takes a lighter view of dreams as Mrs, Mull visits companionably each night with her dead husband until he makes the mist ike of bringing a pretty redhead home with him-twice...