Word: genuflective
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...daughter was cooking dinner for him and would be there until about 9. Muskie, wearing a turtleneck sweater and slacks, was listening to a recording of Bernstein's Mass. "It's O.K.," quipped Catholic Muskie to Methodist McGovern. "You don't have to genuflect." Muskie gave him a tour of the house, which McGovern had never seen before. Then they sat for two hours in Muskie's study, Ed behind the massive desk he had used as Governor of Maine. The two had never been socially close, and Muskie did not think to offer George...
...from One Touch of Venus, is impressively suited to Ogden Nash's lyrics. Lanning runs into trouble, however, with his "September Song." His jut-jawed, toothless version is obviously patterned after Walter Huston, but comes out sounding so much like Al Jolson that you expect him to genuflect and cry out "Mammy" at the end. Cohen and Lander do a witty, sultry, perfect interpretation of Langston Hughes's lyrics from Street Scene...
...what David Merrick calls "flimflam and legerdemain to cover an awful and gloomy book about nothing at all." Fortunately, the Prince and his Follies have that other talent: Stephen Sondheim. For the musical, he has written some of the glossiest, wittiest lyrics in Broadway history. His melodies gracefully genuflect to Kern and Gershwin, Berlin and Arlen. His words bow to no one. With Follies he has established himself, beyond doubt, as the theater's supreme lyricist...
...other reference works, among them Be Young with Yoga, Jogging and Sexercises (which promises to refine the sexual performance of both genders). A U.S. Government pamphlet on Adult Physical Fitness has sold 750,000 copies, without benefit of advertising, since 1963. By the tens of millions, U.S. televiewers genuflect to the exercise programs of Jack LaLanne, Ed Allen and Richard and Diane Hittleman...
...gambling and insurance-claim cheating, which in turn "leads to disrespect for the law and the rights of others." The fault is not wholly the public's, Powell conceded. Equally to blame, he said, is "the tendency of government-at various levels-to apply double standards, and to genuflect to political influence and expediency...