Word: ritually
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. C. S. (Cecil Scott) Forester, 66, British author transplanted to California, most famed for his ten-book series on the 19th century heroics of the indefatigable Captain Horatio Hornblower; of a heart attack; in Fullerton, Calif. Writing, said Forester, "is a toilsome bore"; yet, with an enforced daily ritual of 1,000 words, he managed in 40 years to publish 45 books on every subject from marionettes to the slave trade, all lucidly worded, all carefully researched. Two novels, Payment Deferred and The African Queen, became film classics, and his cynical 1936 study of the military mind, The General...
Baseball players who balk at signing contracts are as much a sign of spring as the first shoot of onion grass. Dealing from grand isolation, the holdouts usu ally settle, after a few ritual parries, for quite a bit less than they want. Some thing new has come along that could forever upset that balance. For the first time in baseball history, two players have teamed up to hold out as a unit...
...first, city officials and even some stockbrokers took all this as mere ritual growl. Twice before, the exchange had headed off similar tax increases by vowing to move away. Last week the exchange turned from threats to action. Its board of governors canceled plans to build a $50 million headquarters in Battery Park, ordered architectural work halted, voted to let an option on the site lapse and decided to step up a search for a new home elsewhere...
...labor for its lack of involvement in higher education. Instead of an editorial calling for the repeal of 14(b) and state right-to-work laws, there was a plea for less labor "ineptitude" in politics. Instead of photos of labor leaders shaking hands with one another in a ritual display of solidarity, there were some stunning color illustrations, ranging from still lifes to abstracts. From cover to cover, the first two issues of Lithopinion, the new quarterly magazine put out by Local One of the Amalgamated Lithographers of America, flouted most of the traditions of union publications...
...read in the Confucian temples and studied by all scholars. Heterodoxy and deviation could not be permitted, or if they did exist, could not be acknowledged to exist. Even when the foreigners were more powerful, the myth of China's superiority had to be solemnly recorded and preserved in ritual. This stress on orthodoxy strikes one today when Peking is continuing its nationwide indoctrination in Chairman Mao's true teachings...