Word: oi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cycle has come full turn. Once we doubted our faith. Now we have come to doubt our doubts." The most overshadowing reason for this is "the threat of nothingness" brought on by the atomic bomb. Adds William D. Geoghegan, assistant professor of religion at Bowdoin College: "The resurgence oi religion is largely due to the shock administered to cultural Couéism by two world wars, a depression, and the painful knowledge that the great powers possess the awesome tools of genocide. Religion is seen as an essential tool in the hard work of sheer survival, not as a matter...
...World was William, a major genera! of Oliver Cromwell's England and one oi the 63 judges who condemned King Charles I to death. After the Restoration he fled to the American wilderness, where for decades he was a fugitive from the vengeance of Charles II. With his steeple hat, his flowing white beard, his Bible and his sword, William Goffe became a New England legend (Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote of him as The Gray Champion}. Years after his death, the shade of William Goffe reportedly appeared at Bunker Hill, and, later, before John Brown in the engine house...
...freshman frowned. "Sorry," he said." he said, "OI didn't mean to be bitter. I'm just hungry." He slid two chunks of meat onto his yellow plate. "Trouble is... no time...to enjoy food," he stumbled out in un-southern fashion...
...earthily explosive performances. The trouble is that the role she plays is too flimsy to sustain her powerful acting. Landfall (Associated British Picture Corp.; Stratford Pictures), based on Nevil Shute's 1940 novel, is done in the typically tightlipped, understated style of the best British movies. It tells oi a World War II Royal Air Force lieutenant who is mistakenly believed to have sunk a British submarine instead of a Nazi U-boat, and of how he is ultimately cleared of the charge...
...celebrated production The Cage (TIME, June 25, 1951), in which the characters are costumed as giant insects-and the females first attract, then destroy the males. A few Londoners might find it puzzling, but not the editors of Picture Post. It was a wellknown U.S. phenomenon: "The women oi America ... eat their men until nothing is left but the inevitable gastric ulcer and a series of figures in blood red on a debilitated bank-statement form...