Word: indirectness
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...resolution went on to contend that it is ''blasphemous and idolatrous" to apply the word reverend to a clergyman even when it is used grammatically, as in the common form of indirect address or written reference: "The Reverend John Smith." Most churchmen would disagree...
...government chips in nothing to help cover the $2.3 million spent for the Houses and the Yard dormitories, or the $3.1 million budget of the dining halls. However, it will be giving indirect help in these areas when Harvard joins the National Defense Education Act program next year...
Seeking his fourth term, Morse is getting some indirect help from Republican Governor Mark Hatfield. Unander ran un successfully against Hatfield in Oregon's 1958 Republican gubernatorial primary, made a lasting enemy of him. Hatfield, himself a cinch for reelection, has yet to announce his support of his ticketmate...
This is rural tragedy; by squeezing humanity in a Granadan village into an even more primitive lump than it actually is, Lorca wanted to fill his stage with constricting unreality: characters talk to each other in indirect but elemental metaphors, and one character, Death as a beggar-woman, actually exists as such a metaphor. Even the Moon comes on to make a speech. The simple trouble is that like nearly all rural tragedy Blood Wedding is the sort of melodrama into which actors are reluctant to empty their energies, and that therefore strikes audiences as faintly embarrassing vulgarity...
...Also indirect but far more puzzling was a surprising finding by Radiologist Kraft. Patients who had never before been in a mental hospital were divided into two groups, psychotic and nonpsychotic. Among the psychotics were no fewer than 46% with evidence of enlarged pituitary glands, as against only 21% of the non-psychotics. This finding tells nothing yet about the origin or probable course of the patients' illnesses, Dr. Kraft emphasized. But the obvious next step is to examine the hormone balance of the mental patients, correct it if necessary, then see whether this makes psychiatric treatment more effective...