Word: overthrown
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Credibility does not really count in Sleufh, by Anthony Shaffer, a television and movie writer who has sometimes collaborated with Brother Peter on detective novels. Sleuth reflects no real world, only the glints of its own inner harmonies. It is all a diabolical plot, and the first to be overthrown by it are the reviewers, for there is no way to describe it without giving away its secrets. It can only be said that its protagonist, a successful whodunit writer named Andrew Wyke (Anthony Quayle), is a witty snob who is inwardly delighted when a would-be lover makes...
...undeniable fact that celibacy is supported by nearly 1,000 years of ecclesiastical tradition, which ought not to be lightly overthrown. Biblical support for the church's rule rests in part on the person of Jesus-the model and ideal of the servant-priest-who spoke (in Matthew 19: 12) of "those who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake." Since the church prohibits castration, some scholars interpret the clause to mean a willing acceptance of the symbolic knife of voluntary chastity. Roman theologians contend that celibacy, if freely adopted, contributes to a deep...
Before B.U. rallied to dump B.C.. 5-4, for the downtown championship which an overthrown Harvard hockey team had relinquished a week earlier, the Crimson stumbled and staggered its way to a 5-4 overtime victory over weak Northeastern last night in the consolation round of the Beanpot Tournament at Boston Garden...
...GENERATION, according to Gerzon, has broken cleanly with the past and overthrown convention. "The postwar generation is the first to have reached manhood in a mass society." One can only guess at the meaning of the last term. "Mass society" has been a commonplace about America since Tocqueville, but Gerzon treats it as a new phenomenon. As one might guess, youth rejects mass society because it is uniform. For all his concern about uniformity, Gerzon himself clings persistently to his own set of stereotype images. His stereotype youth with his stereotype youth culture condemns the stereotype adult with his stereotype...
Icon connotes intense feeling compressed into rigid pose, bend of neck, outsize tapered hands, images both remote and repetitive. At this exhibition, all those expectations are fulfilled, and then overthrown, by the variety bursting forth from the conventions...