Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bigoted, irrelevant, and untrue. Nobody acts. And it was cast by an anonymous prankster with a macabre sense of humor, who must have sniggered as he conjured up Henreid, Hepburn, Daniell, and Bob Walker as grotesque caricatures of Robert and Clara Schumann, Liszt, and Brahms. By all the orthodox criteria of movie criticism, "Song of Love" is eminently eligible for that glib type of verbal massage so familiar to readers of Wolcott Gibbs...
...unfeeling leaders have ordered your young men into combat with the irresistible forces of Columbia. Your leaders . . . promise victories. You know what you get. There is still time for you to retire with honor. Surrender. . . . You will be treated humanely." Two days later, Underdog Yale countered with a more orthodox aerial attack (17 completed passes...
...denials of civil rights. The Bill of Rights may be aged but its vigor is occasionally renewed as when the Supreme Court stated in 1943 that, "If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein." It might be added that belief cannot be coerced...
Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, who used to belong to the Greek Orthodox Church, simplified things by joining the Church of England (now there would have to be only one wedding ceremony instead...
...Tricks. What kind of football will the fans see this fall? The answer: more sleight-of-hand stuff than ever. Most teams are using half a dozen different styles of defense-four-, five-and six-man lines, each having variations known as loose, looping, overshifted, undershifted, orthodox. On offense, the tricky T formation is still the style, with a multitude of refinements, bearing such labels as the split T, the wing T, the QT, the cockeyed T. Said Iowa's Coach Eddie Anderson : "Football is different these days. You don't play a team any more; you play...