Word: quaintly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Written by Anglican Layman Leslie Paul at the request of the church's Central Advisory Council for the Ministry, the report is an attack on the quaint English parish system that dates back to Archbishop Theodore of Canterbury in the 7th century. Today the Church of England has 15,488 priests for its 14,491 parishes, but no equitable way to distribute them. Only about 6,000 of the church's clerical livings are directly assigned by bishops and diocesan authorities. Nearly 2,600 are benefices controlled by Anglican laymen as private patrons. Others are filled by Oxford...
Tidy & Tiny. The short lines bear such quaint names as the Arcade & Attica, the Belfast & Moosehead Lake, the Hoosac Tunnel and Wilmington and the Tweetsie. Most of them are operated by small businessmen for whom railroading is still a shirtsleeve job and the romance of the rails a pleasant bonus. But apart from a handful, like North Carolina's Tweetsie, and the Reader Railroad in southwest Arkansas, which have made their puffing steam locomotives colorful and profitable tourist attractions, romance is not what the short lines are run for. Says an Interstate Commerce Commission official: "There's money...
...twanging accompaniment of background music that would better fit a Kabuki drama, these five bleeding hearts go the way of all flesh. En route, they converse in quaint prose poems reminiscent of haiku...
...because Gross & Co. are deliberately unburying the bodies. To the shock of shoddy contractors, the city's able new school building boss, Eugene E. Hult, recently ordered a half-built $2,500,000 Queens school to be partly dismantled because of weak concrete. Hult also publicized the quaint fact that school custodians, who get lump-sum maintenance funds and are allowed to socket unspent money, have been geting rich in the process. Bushwick High's D. Paul Bishop reportedly got $53,000 ast year, topping Gross's salary by $13,000 and the mayor...
...professor who has questioned his "simple positivist faith" in research carried on ad Infinitum can evade the problem by devoting himself to teaching--in which case he traps himself in repetition and self-dramatization, becoming a "quaint figure" beloved of undergraduates, "the legendary hero of local folk-lore...