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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sitzfleisch & Fen. Inevitably, the book has faults. The authors might have been more critical of some sources and more revealing in etymology. For instance, no attempt is made to trace the origin of that wonder word "viggerish." There are other omissions; how did they ever miss such expressions as on the q.t., go pound sand (meaning "The hell with you, bub"), sitzfleisch (perseverance), penobscot (falsie), fen (well known to every boy who ever played marbles), screech (rotgut), or that masterpiece of imaginative profanity, the blivit (a term of personal description usually defined...
...authorities know little of the Madonnas' origin. They cannot be sure whether the pieces are tapestries, embroideries, or richly textured paintings on cloth; the few visitors who have taken pictures have not been allowed to examine the works in detail. French Archaeologist Jean Doresse, who has been to Aksum, claims that the Madonnas are watercolors painted on canvas by native artists in the tradition established during the flourishing period of the Portuguese influence in the 16th century. Because of the way that the watercolors sink into the cloth, the paintings have the texture of tapestry. Other authorities, however, claim...
...finger-feathering gestures of Little Mary (Eileen Brennan), tires out before Yellow Feather, the Indian heavy, finally has the heroine strapped to a conifer and the No. i Ranger comes singing to the rescue. Nonetheless, there are plenty of fine moments along the way: an ex-diva of Germanic origin sings of her native burg (In Izzenschnooken on the Lovely Essen-zook Zee). A soubrette who wishes she were an unvirtued spy sings her unashamed worship of Mata Hari...
...tight-shut fundamentalist mind, there was nothing much Catholicism could say. In arguing with the liberals, says Father Baum, "we used to begin with the Bible regarded simply as an historical record, trying to show that Jesus, the man Jesus, claimed to be of divine origin and that He proved His claims by prophecy and miracles. Then we showed that he founded a Church, a community of believers on the rock of the apostles, endowed with certain notes or visible properties. The church with these properties can still be found today: it is the Catholic Church...
Soapy Sam Was a Cad. Most educated Englishmen were scientific illiterates, but Huxley greatly helped change that situation. He had speculated about evolution some years before Origin of Species was published, and in the five years after it exploded on the world (in 1859), Huxley exploded with it by issuing 46 major publications on subjects ranging from the fishes of the Devonian epoch to the New Labyrinthodonts from the Edinburgh coalfield. With a "basilisk artistry" on the lecture platform and "a certain ruthlessness," Huxley loved to bandy texts and split hairs with the theologians. He signed letters in mock church...