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Word: obscurantists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...firm of which he is a director; he for the second time (his first wife, whom he married in 1915, died in 1947), she for the first; in an Anglican ceremony in London's St. Barnabas Church (Kensington) held at 6:15 a.m. to avoid Fleet Street newsbeagles. Obscurantist Eliot on the gulf between May and December in Lines for an Old Man (Collected Poems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 21, 1957 | 1/21/1957 | See Source »

...Billy Graham is a personable, modest and appealing young man who has wedded considerable dramatic and demagogic gifts with a rather obscurantist version of the Christian faith. His message is not completely irrelevant to the broader social issues of the day, but it approaches irrelevance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Billy & Babylon | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

...This is the general confusion that let Odysseus out of the giant's cave, and in the scramble, the real ethical problem- to what extent one should tell the committee, not about oneself, but about others-is obscured. The very term 'witch hunt' is obscurantist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The New Front | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

...statesman, "this symbol of European reaction," was joined on the menu by a symbol of British imperialism-Veal Steak a la Nelson^-and one of Hungary's famous feudal families-Beef Steak Esterhdzy.- There were other dishes whose names had no politically dyspeptic connotations, but which were simply obscurantist, e.g., Filet de Fogas Orly,†† Veau a la Bonne Femme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: The Menu Menace | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

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