Word: forming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Morrison, has already felt his displeasure. By giving the state a bigger share of the city's income (sales tax, cigarette tax, revenue from horse racing), Earl's legislature has cut $3,000,000 of New Orleans revenue. It has ordered the city to readopt the aldermanic form of government (which New Orleans abandoned by referendum in 1912), thus robbing the mayor of almost all power...
Even those who thought some of the bronze, wood and marble figures a bit stagy admitted that they were masterfully carved, with an unfailing simplicity of line and form. Ivan Městrović, the man who made them, was there himself to help install the show...
...Thus the paradoxical Christian knowledge of God inevitably came to be expressed in the trinitarian form: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, three in one . . . This seems impossible to systematize, and indeed it does not make sense until we remember the historical facts and experiences out of which it arose...
Desperate Jeremiad. In the past, the report of the contemporary traveler on a future society or imaginary land (Edward Bellamy, Sir Thomas More) has often been used as a vehicle to show what a wonderful Utopia awaits man. In Huxley's hand this form becomes a desperate, overworked and sometimes incoherent jeremiad directed against a destruction-bent, unheeding world. As a satirist, Huxley has neither Swift's passion nor Celine's gusto; he simply can't stand the world any more, not even enough to pillory...
...their old chairman, heaved out in 1945 when he went on advocating cooperation with capitalism (when the wartime party line had been changed), abjectly pleaded for reinstatement as a party member. The 250 delegates snorted collectively: for Browder even to ask to be taken back was in itself a "form of anti-party activity." Perhaps deviationist Browder, who is still the Kremlin's publishing agent in the U.S., was also being held in reserve, in case Moscow's line should be changed again. In any event the comrades at the Riverside Plaza slammed the door in his face...