Word: knighting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most regularly read in the capital. They emerged in the Boston Globe in the heart of the Cambridge intellectual community. Also favored were the Los Angeles Times, which is powerful in the West and runs a news service with more than 200 U.S. newspaper clients, and the eleven-newspaper Knight chain. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Chicago Sun-Times also met the same obvious criteria: a strong antiwar editorial record...
...only appeared to be in human form. The orthodox consensus, of course, was that he was both truly man and truly God. Beyond that basic tenet, however, different cultures through the ages have invariably given Christ different characterizations. The medieval church saw him as the ideal knight in the spiritual guidebook Ancrene Wisse, and later as Christ the King?a connotation that happened to fit in nicely with the papacy's temporal claims...
...this was all at an end, and Pusey began building his reputation for aloofness. Unlike most cases, it was not a gradual slipping away from popularity to indifference to opprobrium; the death of Pusey the White Knight, and the birth of Pusey the ogre, can be traced to one occurrence-the Memorial Church crisis...
...author is professor of Economics and fellow of the Center for International Affairs. The following article is from a speech delivered 18 months ago, and is reprinted with permission of the publisher from Cybernetics, Simulation, and Conflict Resolution, edited by Douglas E. Knight. Huntington W. Curtis and Lawrence J. Fogel. Copyright 1971 Spartan Books...
...film, her character calls forth audience frustration rather than the desired sense of intrigue. Introduced in two slow motion sequences, she is surrounded by a lyricism that is forced and contrived. Throughout the middle of the film, as she invites Hermie into her house and proceeds to knight him her friend, the audience is thrown back on its own expectations-is she as simple as she seems? Is she not perhaps a younger version of the spinster/widow-in-heat that dominated the films of the fifties? The movie's conclusion-a beautifully paced, remarkably tender love sequence-resolves some of the confusions...