Word: paganization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...further cutbacks loom. Transportation will be especially difficult. The mayor wants to give streetcars and buses priority over automobiles, a heretical idea in the Detroit of Italy-Fiat is by far the city's dominant employer. Even Novelli admits that "in Turin, the automobile is like a pagan...
...Althena had an advantage over us." Sissy Farenthold. Chair of the Woman's National Political Caucus (NWPC), sucked the convention members into her words like a pagan priestess mesmerizing a pack of willing iconoclasts. "She sprang full grown from the forehead of Zeus. Our movement is not ordained from on high and we hardly sprang full-grown. Our growth will come with painstaking effort...
...must take exception to the lie in your review of my novel The Promise of Joy [April 14], in which you state that "Drury describes the Chinese variously as 'yellow hordes,' 'pagan hordes' and 'mongrel hordes...
...upon to decide nothing less than the fate of Western civilization. After a good deal of messy preliminaries, China and Russia go to war against each other. Atomic weapons devastate both countries, but the massive Chinese army advances despite horrendous losses. Drury describes the Chinese variously as "yellow hordes," "pagan hordes" and "mongrel hordes." Besides Knox, other holdover Drury characters taking a last bow include Secretary of State Robert Lessingwell, Commie-Symp Fred Van Ackerman, Columnist Walter Dobius and TV Commentator Frankly Unctuous...
...society's darling. Célimène (Diana Rigg) is a widow of 20, a teasing, witchy, worldly enchantress. She gossips maliciously, she lies, she keeps two other lovers on the string. Yet until she finally rejects him, the puritan Alceste is in tormented thrall to this pagan Lilith...