Word: pious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John coolly recalls, "loved children, provided of course they were legitimate and well-behaved." His father appears frequently and ambiguously in John's autobiography. Having been in his own turn a father and a grandfather, John inclines to apologize for his own filial rebellions. His father's "pious admonitions," John confesses, "were met by indifference or even hostility. To this perverse and refractory spirit must be attributed many of my shortcomings and much of the ill-fortune which has befallen me in life. I appear ... to have perpetuated, only in a reverse sense, the principles laid down...
Last week, Composer Harris' Mass was finally performed-but not at St. Pat's. Music lovers trekked uptown to Columbia University's St. Paul's Chapel to hear the Princeton Chapel Choir sing it. Composer Harris had cluttered up the program with his usual pious phrases about American music ("All the materials have been extracted from prototypes of American folk songs"). Some of the new Mass sounded more like monkish Plainsong. But there was plenty of power, freshness and vigor, and surprisingly little of Harris' usual repetitiousness...
...Chinese have a pious habit of copying their old masters' paintings and signing the masters' names to their copies -out of respect. That practice makes a muddle of most Chinese art collections...
...gators, as yet unnamed, were safely penned in a wire cage and Pious swore that they could not escape. A Yard cop who arrived early one evening to investigate possible danger to Union eaters, left reassured...
...fascinated Harriet because his character was so mixed. Snootily correct in his brilliant uniform, free-&-easy in old country clothes, Desmond's "animal eyes" made him a scary lover, but he had a wonderfully gentle way with children. To hear him in church, intoning the responses in a pious voice, was enough to convince you that he was a sanctimonious prig-until you saw him gay & dashing in a nightclub. The trusted confidant of his general, Desmond was one of the most promising officers in the army. When he asked her to marry him, in a clumsy, boyish...