Word: amide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Amid the tearing down, Freedom, Love and Peace were set up as idols. The worshipers were themselves semidivine: the new noble savages rhapsodized by the Who, the Stones, the denizens of Haight-Ashbury. As Steppenwolf sang in 1968, "Like a true nature child/ We were born, born to be wild/ We have climbed so high/ Never want...
...been asked, amid the intellectual and political convulsions that tore Spain asunder between 1790 and 1815, "Whose side are you on?", he would have answered, "Reason's." For Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, the gilder's son from Aragon, did not have the education of a Diderot or a Rousseau, but he was completely a figure of the Enlightenment; his paintings and prints, with their obsessive imagery of the conflict of light and darkness, are perhaps its supreme metaphorical expression in European art outside of the classically formalized work of Jacques-Louis David...
...portrait of Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, the outstanding thinker of the Spanish Enlightenment, a much-exiled man who briefly held state office as the Minister of Religion and Justice under Carlos IV. Goya shows him at an ornate desk in the Madrid palace, lost in melancholy thought amid props that seem out of scale with his modesty...
...Nashville the Friday before the convention opened. A menagerie of Jackson hangers-on and media executives produced a constant din of demands on his time. Through it all, Brown moved at his amiable pace, never snapping. He shows the same style as he travels in pursuit of the chairmanship amid the crisp flutter of his professional staffers. Only small signs show that the calm is partly a facade: eyes that keep darting and miss nothing, a leg that shakes back and forth like a place-kicker's as he sits and talks...
...Amid the flying fish and chickens, Cornell fans will see bunnies. These masked fans will try to scream, try to cheer. Not so easy. This is Lynah, not Bright...