Word: worshiping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Many Fingers. But the road to office was not all smooth for Candidate Steel. To the New York World-Telegram, he was " 'an all-out defender of Stalin's politics' with a special bent for Soviet worship. . . ." The New Leader, an anti-Communist labor paper, described him as "a servile propagandist... a consistent fabricator ... of his personal life and history," recalled that he was once praised by the Soviet Izvestia as a "lonely voice" in America. The New Leader also pointed out that Steel had the classic commentator's background-in 1934 he had written: "Hitler...
Today he drives to work at 8 a.m. in a rattletrap Chevvie, parks wherever he can find space, and pauses for a long look at the snow-capped Coast Range mountains across the sound before entering his office. His students worship him. So do war veterans, not one of whom he has turned away. Said Larry Mackenzie: "By hook or by crook we'll make room for them...
...this is not to deny the important place held by the Boston Symphony in American music. It has a finer tone and greater consistency than any other major ensemble. I do wish, however, to blast the cult of unintelligent Koussevitzky-worship which has become a blight upon the city. The week after week performances of almost any important orchestra are more satisfactory to this viewer and to many others...
...Wisely, but Too Well. In Brookings, S.D., trustees of the Church of Christ petitioned the circuit court to keep Mr. & Mrs. Allen R. McMillan from attending services, because they disrupted worship by shouting "amen" too loudly and often...
...Phoneticians have wasted a century raising an empty laugh over the spelling of cough. They have never knocked into our heads the simple fact that a letter saved in spelling is saved not once but millions of times. Millions of hours [are] now wasted in a sort of devil worship of Dr. Johnson...