Word: amal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Gardner redeemed his prom ise by accepting the chairmanship of the national Urban Coalition, an amal gam of leaders from business, labor, local government, religious and civil rights organizations that was formed to attack the civic problems highlighted by the Newark and Detroit riots...
...struck gong, snaked nasally through soaring loop-the-loops, dipped to guttural growls, sobs and moans. Her subtle phrasing and delicate changes of pitch evoked revival-like cries from the whistling, shouting, foot-stamping audience: "Ya qalbi [Oh, my heart!]" and "Ya habibi [Oh, my love!]." The first song, Amal Hayati (Hope of My Life), lasted 70 minutes. After a 45-minute rubdown backstage by her two personal masseurs, she returned to sing again. Another break, another rubdown, and she wailed on until...
...windy self-pity and a maundering facility with cosmic clichés ("In my opinion the wickedest and unworthiest of men are generally the most rewarded"). He shows little understanding of his venomous pupil, perhaps because Sheean's Nero is not a character at all but a dim amal gam of perfumes, painted lips and libido. In all, Sheean has taken one of history's wise men living in one of its most scandalous eras and produced a dry tract full of petty non sequiturs...