Word: adolphus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Olivares blandly offered his angry king, Philip IV, a choice 17th century sophistry: "God wants us to make peace, for He is depriving us visibly and absolutely of all means of war." The great Cardinal outwitted himself, however, when he subsidized the warmaking of the fanatic Swedish Protestant, Gustavus Adolphus. Richelieu counted on Gustavus to harry the Austrian Hapsburgs, which he did. But the Cardinal was unable to keep Gustavus leashed, and until the Swede's death in 1632 at the battle of Lützen, he was a growing threat to France. The passionate Gustavus...
...yesterday, a Mr. Adolphus Edwards, a Jamaican immigrant, was pecked to death by a large Bronze Eagle in Upper Parliament St. A U.S. State Dept. spokesman said later, "We have no comment to make as of this time...
...vice versa. Why do these highly disciplined attempts at human dialogue fail? The reason, says Abraham Kaplan, a professor of philosophy at the University of Michigan, is that they are not really dialogues at all. Before a conference on human and animal communication at Minnesota's Gustavus Adolphus College this month, Kaplan introduced his own word for all those human occasions when everybody talks and nobody listens. He calls them "duologues...
Taking up the scepter in 1644, Christina soon became Europe's most curious baroque spinster queen. Her father, the militant Protestant Gustavus Adolphus, had ordered that she be brought up as a boy. In fact, the royal midwives had at first thought that she was one. She practiced shooting with a pistol, learned to speak Latin, French, German, Dutch, Italian and cope in Hebrew, Arabic and Greek...
...uniformly excellent, if wasted, performance, and Barbara is almost worth seeing just for some of the fine acting in it. Lucy Martin plays a believably inspired Barbara with clarity and humor, but most of all with sincere devotion to her work in the Salvation Army. Edward Zang plays an Adolphus Cusins actively in love with both Greek and Barbara, and as the scholar-lover he possesses a fine sense of Shavian wit. Terrence Currier as Snobby Price, the hypocritically reformed worker, and Lawrence Pressman as Bill Walker, the unreformed bully, skillfully carry their roles as far as their director will...