Word: absently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the eye of a fellow child. Fast action and disaster, hasty exits and final parental retribution. Seryozha's loneliness during the first few weeks of his mother's marriage isolates him from the rest of the children: he is shown on the fringe of groups, always a little absent from their activities, dramatizing his loneliness...
...very long ago, Sir James Frazer sat in his leather armchair, distilling an impressive compendia of primitive customs from the reports of adventurous travelers; at the same time his countrymen were rallying to the jingoist battle cries of Kipling. Nor was the primacy of white civilization absent from the American idiom: with the then recent defeat of the last of the Indians, the slogan "Better dead than Red" still meant something. Soon after the turn of the century, however, modern cultural anthropology was born, when Franz Boas left his study and took to the hills in search of the truth...
Into Vevey, Switzerland, for the wedding of Bulgaria's ex-King Simeon, 24, to a Spanish banking heiress, bounced Egypt's suety ex-King Farouk, 41, accompanied by second daughter Princess Fawzia, 21. Europe's reigning royalty was conspicuously absent, but 180 lesser bloods crammed into the small Russian Orthodox chapel, where only three seats were set up-for the three onetime monarchs among them. While Bulgaria's ex-Queen loanna and Albania's ex-Queen Geraldine democratically declined to use theirs, Farouk sat down in lonely, perspiring splendor...
...generations of Labor Party theorists; in London. A descendant of British freeholders who fought for Cromwell and Parliament, he was a passionate believer in equality, turned down an army commission and fought instead as a sergeant in World War I, later spurned a peerage, lived as a gentle, absent-minded professor. He left his intellectual mark on hundreds of workers, whom he ardently taught in night classes, condemning the ethics of capitalism while setting out in righteous contrast the moral principles of a cooperative order...
Named after the late conductor, it was organized by the Women's Division of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York; contestants were invited from every nation in the U.N. A total of 32 pianists from 15 countries, including 18 from the U.S., responded. Notably absent were contestants from any Iron Curtain country. Russia explained that it would probably send someone next year, but needed time to "prepare...