Word: toe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...demons. Swords clash and warriors strut; lovers grieve and stab themselves; workers are whipped; gods curse; a group of students rebel against their teachers. In all these dances, Shankar uses only Indian instruments, the ancient ragas (modes), and the hundreds of gestures-a bent finger, a turned-up toe, a roll of the eyes-that have carried the same meanings to Indians for centuries...
Soviet architects, like all their comrades in art, are expected to toe the line. Last week they stubbed their toes-as the painters and composers had before them. Their difficulty was a familiar one: the line had changed...
...Galileo. Western scientists are outraged by this Soviet attack upon scientific principle. It reminds them of Galileo, who was "disciplined" for asserting that the earth moves around the sun. They do not see how Haldane, who has enjoyed wide respect as a biologist and geneticist, can continue to toe the party line and remain a scientist...
...Greenness of Grass. What had happened to Oxford-or that splinter of it that "Oxonian" had stubbed his toe on? "Oxonian" thought one man was largely to blame-a wan and wispy philosopher named Alfred Jules ("Freddie") Ayer. Ayer's book, Language, Truth and Logic, had "acquired almost the status of a philosophic Bible" at Oxford. It insisted that "value judgments" of beauty and goodness were, philosophically speaking, nonsense. They were moral sentiments, not facts at all. Such heresies, "Oxonian" thought, left no place for human values, created the moral void fascism required...
...finally won this longstanding argument is Geneticist Trofim Denisovich Lysenko, president of the Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Lysenko rose to his present eminence by being able to make his science toe the party line. Although Lysenko has gained increasing recognition in Russia, most Western and some Soviet geneticists have regarded his party-line genetics as scientifically naive...