Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perhaps no archbishop in the U.S. is more sympathetic to the plight of the meek than Boston's mercurial Richard Cardinal Gushing. Now students from St. John's Seminary,* barely a stone's throw from Cushing's residence, are rebelliously demanding reform. Cushing, suddenly stiff-necked, has expelled eight of them. The battle between liberal prelate and freedom-seeking students symbolizes one of the unresolved problems of the new spirit of freedom in the Catholic Church: reformation of a seminary system basically unchanged in centuries...
Focus of the student protest in Boston was a stiff new regime imposed on St. John's by Monsignor Lawrence Riley, whom Cushing named as rector last summer. A conservative in church matters, Riley rejected a list of outside lecturers the students wanted to hear, and reinstated the all-Latin Mass. Both Riley and Cushing ignored letters, signed by 20 senior seminarians, asking for a discussion of the changes...
...from 185 corporations, and a broad base of individual support to back its proud claim of being "everybody's orchestra." Sweden's Sixten Ehr-ling, 48, who replaced the venerable Paul Paray as conductor in 1962, has tempered the heavily romantic repertory favored by "Papa Paray" with stiff doses of modern music, has sharpened the ensemble playing into machine-tooled precision, and has added a velvety sheen to the orchestra's sound with the addition of 23 new musicians this year. Intense, sharp-featured Ehrling has brought a dashing and vigorous new image to the Detroit podium...
...Stiff Rule. The big news was the new obscenity standard laid down in the Ginzburg decision-which was based not so much on the content of his publications as on the way he peddled them. Speaking for the court in all three cases, Justice William J. Brennan said that Ginzburg's "titillating" advertising was so permeated with "the leer of the sensualist" that he was guilty of "the sordid business of pandering." Brennan took dead aim at "those who would make a business of pandering to the widespread weakness for titillation by pornography." The result: a stiff new rule...
...overall consistency of the play. It seems to me he has capitulated to the antics, or simply not had enough time to coordinate them. Either way, Earnest comes over in patches. Furthermore, while Agassiz's small stage makes blocking difficult, there is no excuse for having characters stand stiff against the curtains while they are not part...