Word: sole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...important or not, has remained well within the neutral middle range of emotion and event. His heroes, particularly those of his short stories, tend to be young boys or young husbands whose problems are small, and whose perceptions, although perfect and sometimes intense, are small also. The sole (and partial) exception is his novel of Everyslob, Rabbit, Run. Here his hero is a former high school basketball star whose memories of past glory give him immortal longings. When his life runs aground in the shallows of marriage, he is moved in anguish to ask: "Is this all there...
Filet of English Sole, Glacée Véronique...
Despite the angry accusations and flaring tempers, the issues in the dispute are quite simple. The NCAA, irritated over the years by the AAU's handling of the selection of U.S. Olympic teams, has been seeking what it calls "adequate" representation in the selection procedure. The AAU, long-time sole representative of the United States in international athletic matters, has jealously proclaimed its right to continue in this position. As proof of its determination to retain its monopoly, the AAU recently declared that all athletes participating in meets sponsored by the NCAA fostered Track and Field Federation were ineligible...
...superb performances are the sole merit of the overlong and confusing Tunes of Glory, but they make the entire film worthwhile. Under the spell of Alec Guinness and John Mills, one remains unperturbed by the foolish complexities that James Kennaway has tossed together as a plot, or the familiar characterizations of all the other actors...
Vatican II was the first council called neither to combat heresy, pronounce new dogmas nor marshal the church against hostile forces. As the bishops came to Rome to deliberate, Pope John encouraged "holy liberty" in the expression of their views. The bishops, who had long considered Rome the sole source of power and authority in the Catholic world, gathered together for the first time in their lives, discovered that they and not Rome constituted the leadership of the church...