Word: mishmashes
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Following services there, lay volunteers will teach Sunday school classes for children of the congregation in the Roberts' bedroom, study, dining area and one of the double apartment's kitchens. "It's a mishmash," Roberts admits. "This is the place where we worship, where we have our friends, where I work, where the baby plays." Small as it is, Roberts' church outshines the facilities afforded Father Joseph Frederic Richard, latest of the Roman Catholic priests who have ministered to Americans off and on in Moscow for 30 years; the chapel in Richard's apartment holds...
...specifically criticized the book because of "President Pusey's vague and indiscriminate objection to an interest in the applicability of truths to society." And he scored a defense of the "pure intellectuality of the university by appeal to a sanctimonious mishmash...
...review entitled "Veritas or Mishmash?" Boorstin attacked "the banality and intellectual timidity of the volume." He also criticized the book's "few vague themes" because they "express attitudes not uncommon nowadays among our self-conscious intellectuals" and "these attitudes can stultify our life...
...capital cities of the U.S. took shape for the most part when a public building was something with a cupola and plenty of columns. New York's state capitol is a monument to the architectural style that might be called Ugly American-a granite mishmash of Second Empire, Francis I and Romanesque, with Doric columns, Corinthian columns, tile roofs, slate roofs, dormers, chimneys and rusticated stone work. The city it dominates is appropriately dismal. But last week plans were unveiled that will make Albany, in the words of Governor Nelson Rockefeller, "the most beautiful capital city in the United...
...celibate, Mass-celebrating monk styling himself a Lutheran? The Great Reformer of Wittenberg, who by word and deed rejected celibacy, the Mass and monasticism, would have flown into one of his typical Teutonic tizzies. Neither Catholic fish nor Protestant fowl, "Father" Kreinheder represents a syncretistic mishmash equally offensive to both. One wonders if he has a mezuzah on the doorpost of his monastery just to be sure all bases are covered...