Word: hidebound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world of medicine boasts some 6,000 medical journals, almost a tenth of them in the U. S. A major requirement for scientific publication is dullness. All articles in British and U. S. journals are cut to the same hidebound pattern: The problem is stated, its history reviewed (often from the time of Hippocrates), the experiments or clinical notes baldly recorded, briefly "discussed." Finally the whole structure is crowned with conclusions-if there...
...this was revolutionary theatre when, in the 18705, Wagner's Bayreuth Festspielhaus was built to mount it properly. It is no longer revolutionary, for the Metropolitan, like the Festspielhaus, is hidebound by the Ring tradition that not a hair of Wotan's beard must be altered, not a comma of Wagner's copious stage directions deleted...
Next day, after the Jackson appointment had thus been crowned with success, it became apparent that the Senate would presently have a chance to investigate another appointee, compared to whom Mr. Jackson is a hidebound Tory. As the new Solicitor General was sworn in. Attorney General Cummings announced his choice for Mr. Jackson's successor in the Department of Justice : Thurman Wesley Arnold...
...desirable respect for his material, he has also illustrated his book with nearly 500 reproductions of works of art, rather than with sketches of his own. The Cheney history has positive virtues of completeness, modesty and readability, avoids alike the arrogance of parochial "moderns" and the bluster of hidebound conservatives...
This week-end the Vagabond will spend reading the newly discovered "Letters from Fanny Brawne", which he hopes will make Mathew Arnold look the hidebound fool the Vagabond has always thought...