Word: abjectly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is a high concentration of low income families: 15.3 per cent of Cambridge families were living (in 1960) in abject poverty with annual incomes of less than $3000 as compared to 11 per cent for the Boston Metropolitan area. --from Economic Opportunity Information Kit, given to all members of the City Anti-Poverty committee in Decembebr...
Died. Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, 83, friend and biographer of two U.S. literary pillars (Willa Gather: A Memoir; Robert Frost: The Trial by Existence), among whose reminiscences were Gather's abject chagrin at Henry James's polite refusal to read her novels and Frost's nagging suspicion that his wife was his intellectual superior; in Manhattan...
...identical chair when protesting outrageous alimony demands. Waiting for the P.T.A. meeting to begin, he sprawls. Waiting for the loan officer to finish a phone call, he assumes the well-known suppliant's crouch, a kind of sidesaddle, lock-kneed pose designed to convey simultaneously fiscal responsibility and abject need...
...scream of horror, a scream of fear, a scream of rage, a scream of protest--a violent screaming of the senses which could only be resolved with colors and shapes on canvas. His painting of the "Descent from the Cross" (1917), showing the removal of a hopelessly abject and skeletal Jesus by two men grimacing with revulsion, sums up his post-war mood: "Humility before God is done with....My pictures reproach God for his errors...
...Communist parties in Moscow this December to condemn the Chinese, but the fraternal parties dragged their feet so that the meeting threatened to be a fiasco. Another terrible defeat was the disintegration of Soviet power over European Communism culminating in the Italian party's declaration of independence, the formerly abject French party's similar declaration, and the virtual revolt of the heretofore grovelling Rumanians...