Word: pious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...characters are played with more enterprise than others. Daniel Seltzer's independent, personable Ulysses, Robert Thurman's willowy, boyish Troilus, William Fitz-Hugh's dim-witted Ajax with his fatuous pride, Alvarez Bulos' slippery Pandarus with oily speech and manners, David Stone's manly Hector, Travis Linn's pious Nestor, Jean Weston's over-wrought, unkempt Cassandra--all have individuality in one degree or another...
...real by many readers: "It became dangerous in the South to be intelligent . . . Every Baptist pastor became a neighborhood Pope . . . Every pastor was a chartered libertine, free to bawl nonsense without challenge . . . What the poor whites heard from the outside world they heard from the lips of these pious ignoramuses...
...pious who came to him hoping for instruction in prayer and contemplation would usually find themselves turning mattresses for the sick in hospitals. One woman (he was not partial to women since one had tried to seduce him ) complained to Philip that she was covered with lice from her hospital work, and his response was to tell her to eat one of them. He loved to lead pilgrimages to Rome's seven basilicas, and they took on the quality of gay outings, complete with plenty of food and wine, in which nobles rubbed shoulders with peasants and workmen...
...from the beginning has been as serious as a neurosurgical autopsy-"I was not a Freudian when we started this," says Reinhardt, "but after a time, when the Oedipus complex was mentioned all joking ceased"-the three men's discussions frequently embarrassed and sometimes outraged Huston's pious Irish Catholic servants...
...claims he never touches the hard stuff, and keeps his hairy hands off the Pirates. Murtaugh realizes full well that overmanaging would cramp the egos-and crimp the play-of the bunch of oddly assorted personalities he has nursed to maturity as ballplayers: Pitcher Vernon Law (19-8), a pious Mormon elder; Third Baseman Don Hoak (.277), a sulphur-mouthed ex-Marine and ex-middleweight boxer; Shortstop Dick Groat, the intense, introspective team captain (now sidelined by a broken left wrist); and Right Fielder Roberto Clemente (.320), a showboating Puerto Rican. "They're all major leaguers," says Murtaugh...