Word: solider
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...runner among current Curialists, Sergio Pignedoli, 68, may be afflicted with the "Curia curse." Resentment of the Vatican bu-[reaucracy was evident in the choice of "John Paul, a total outsider. This could overshadow the fact that Pignedoli ranks with Ursi in personal warmth and popularity and has had solid pastoral experience. Strangely, Pappalardo and Pignedoli will probably also be hurt by their lack of support among the 29 Curial votes...
...Lynds' findings was that Munsonians-and by implication, most Americans-were living in two different centuries, desperately trying to adjust to rapid industrialization, yet holding on fiercely to the homespun values of 19th century rural America. Wrote the Lynds: "A citizen has one foot on the relatively solid ground of established institutional habits, and the other foot fast to an escalator erratically moving in several directions at a bewildering variety of speeds." Now a new team of sociologists headed by Theodore Caplow of the University of Virginia has moved in on Muncie to update the Lynds with a study...
...ensuing course of accusation and revelation seems solid enough as psychology, but if the exhausting process succeeds as drama-and a viewer finds himself veering toward mutiny-it is mostly because the two actresses are superb. We feel stingingly the hopeless adoration of the little girl of 30 years ago (played in brief flashback by Linn Ullmann, Liv's daughter) for the glittering mother who ignored her, and the destructive frustration of the mother who could not show the emotion except through the ordered avenues of music...
...Solid pitching from Yankee hurler Jim Beattie, who notched eight strikeouts on the night, and poor fielding by the Dodgers gave the Yankees their third straight victory here...
...into the South African gold industry during the early '50s that Engelhard first started to turn his father's relatively modest metals business into a global powerhouse. Setting himself up as a bullion dealer in South Africa, Engelhard beat restrictions on the export of newly mined gold by manufacturing solid gold art items--solid gold pulpit tops, dishes, bracelets. Once legally exported in this manner, they would be melted down into bullion again...