Word: titular
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last analysis, no congeries of ancillary virtues can salvage a production of the world's most celebrated play if its titular hero, with 40 percent of the lines, does not enlist our sympathy until the final five minutes...
...Edinburgh, John Paul held two discussions with the Rt. Rev. John Mclntyre, the titular head (Moderator) of the Church of Scotland-the first time that a Pope had met Scotland's leading Protestant on Scottish soil. The meeting occurred in the shadow of the stern gaze of a statue of 16th century Calvinist Reformer John Knox, who once said, "The venom and malice of Satan reigneth in all Papists." Mclntyre seemed unintimidated by the setting: "If you are concerned at all for the unity of the church in Scotland, where we have a very bad record," he said...
...second level, Journey of the Fifth Horse is a parable about mankind. Chulkaturin, reading from his diary, tells the tale of the titular fifth horse, harnessed for some mysterious reason to a coach which already boasts a full complement of four horses. The coachman, who has shackled the fifth horse so clumsily as to make it chafe and bleed, explains that the animal has no purpose in life but to run, senselessly and painfully. Chulkaturin thinks of himself in terms of this story, for he and the fifth horse are both defined by an utterly characterless superfluity...
...puts added responsibility on Horner, as titular head of the institution, to speak out for Radcliffe and the women's issues it largely represents-to lobby for Radcliffe's interests. When the Radcliffe Forum was eliminated two springs ago. Horner's voice was conspicuously quiet. As long as she has chosen to express herself on the foreign policy questions of U.S. arms sales, more aggressive advocacy on the home front does not seem unreasonable...
...line is a national championship. No other squash team in the country has emerged as a serious challenger to the two titans, and chances are that the winner of this one will look back on the match at the end of the season as the one that sealed a titular season...