Word: pious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...film was made by a Spanish company in Spain, and viewed in its national context, it is hard to see how it could be other than over-pious, almost sanctimonious to American taste. Viewed with these conditions in mind--and taken with a block of salt--it is a very competent and sensitive film...
...distortions of John Dewey's thinking that have led so many schools to fall for the cults of life adjustment. "One of our greatest dangers lies in an anti-intellectualism fostered by school authorities who should be among its most valiant opponents. One expression of it is the pious cliche, 'We teach boys and girls, not subjects.' The superintendent of schools in a large city puts this into practice by assigning his teachers to subjects they have never studied, because, he says, he wants his teachers to be 'child-centered,' not 'subject-centered...
...infamous Shefferman Labor Relations Associates firm. Pitzele saw nothing wrong in Shefferman's paying him ("This is an unusual union, and these are unusual people"). But as the Teamster crooks grew fatter, he did begin to see something incongruous in Beck's and Shefferman's pious explanation that the Teamster president was "giving them enough rope to hang themselves." Finally, in 1955, Pitzele suspected they would be left unhung, severed his relationship. Said he: "As an adviser, I was a great failure. He took none of my advice...
...Russia all but dropped its pious pretense that its only concern is Arab welfare. Said Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko coldly: "Our attitude ... is prescribed by the interests of the Soviet Union's security." In a series of private conversations, clearly designed to terrify Arab and Asian delegates, Gromyko conveyed the impression that Russia was prepared to intervene militarily even if the present Syrian regime were overthrown by internal revolt...
Left pretty much to themselves by the cautious British Raj in the days of empire, the savage Nagas, many of whom are good pious Baptists, have long fiercely resented the fact that Nehru's government split their tribes into two camps and clamped one under the rule of New Delhi and the other under the state of Assam...