Word: gordian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radcliffe's Student Government showed the way to Gordian knot-slicing Saturday when it ended in a few words the clouds of controversy that had been hanging over the results of its most recent vote. Instead of wasting time with legalistic arguments, the Student Government officers made certain that every possible doubt would be cleared up by calling for a second vote on all three of the issues in question...
After that, Kootz's own local stable of U.S. painters could only irritate, not shock. Fernand Leger brought up the rear with one of his obsessive puzzles: three ropey girls tied in a Gordian knot. Venus de Milo was obviously as out of fashion as a pretty knee...
Wags forecast that, in coming weeks, CBS would be there when Hannibal crosses the Alps, Socrates dies, and Alexander the Great cuts the Gordian knot. Cracked one CBStaffer: "The series need end only with the crack of doom-recorded and transcribed by CBS, of course...
...Gordian Knot Untied suite of Henry Purcell, Britain's earliest major composer (circa 1659-95), makes a delightful companion album by the same orchestra (4 sides). Both performances: excellent...
...poker brawls, smokes out the skunk who killed his boss and, in the course of preventing a dove-soft eastern girl from being cheated of her inheritance, learns that he himself is the rightful heir to the K.C. Ranch. By this same bold fiat of plotting, which slices the Gordian knot paper-thin, it is also shown that he and the young lady are cousins, ineligible for wedlock. This leaves the weather clear and the track fast for a neck-and-neck finish, shared by Mr. Wayne and a fierce, rough-coated local filly (Ella Raines...