Word: pious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Andronoff's concert itself proved disappointing. The big bell, supposed to be audible for 20 miles as it called the pious to prayer across the Russian steppe, could not really be heard across Cambridge. From close by, however the noise was all too audible, the larger bells almost completely drowning out the smaller ones...
...Buddha crashed to the ground, badly cracked. To the priests' surprise, the plaster was only a shell; beneath it shone the glint of metal. Trai Mitra's old plaster Buddha was a mere mummy case concealing a beautiful sculptured image wrought of 60% gold. Though to the pious Buddhist one divine image is as valuable as another, regardless of intrinsic worth, it was nice to know that infidels estimated the worth of Trai Mitra's prize at close...
...play starts when the hero, Dick Dudgeon, who is the black sheep of a pious New England family, gets a legacy. This isn't right, for black sheep don't usually get legacies and heroes don't usually triumph at the beginning. When Dick later decides to be heroic he does so just because he feels like it, and not for the love of the minister's beautiful young wife, as he should. And when the elderly minister should become heroic, he's a coward. In the end, however, the minister appears with pistols, and both he and Dick Dudgeon...
...Communism's strange and dark world, unmasking yesterday's lie does not establish the truth of today's correction. More is involved in this great upheaval than a pious desire to redress the memory of dead comrades. The outside world can only guess at what conflict of motives inside the Kremlin drives its leaders to a reckless unraveling of the past, but does know that it is a dangerous game-the kind that usually calls for victims...
...gruesome legend, in a butt of malmsey wine. And while he waits for the aging king (Hardwicke) to die "and leave the world for me to bustle in," the "bottled spider" can teasingly tongue-tie the opposing faction ("Cannot a plain man live?") and make a lot of pious tut and pother ("I thank my God for my humility") at the deathbed of the king...