Word: amidst
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...formally educated individual would be made acquainted with what the agencies of mass communication are their dangers as well as their usefulness, their commercial motivations as well as their educational possibilities--all very concretely in terms of names and places. He would have learned to discriminate and choose amidst the welter of news and opinion. He would have acquired a sales resistance, and yet know how to buy; an initial skepticism which would nevertheless permit him to believe. He would, in short, be the maker and guardian of his own mind...
...formally educated individual would be made acquainted with what the agencies of mass communication are their dangers as well as their usefulness, their commercial motivations as well as their educational possibilities--all very concretely in terms of names and places. He would have learned to discriminate and choose amidst the welter of news and opinion. He would have acquired a sales resistance, and yet know how to buy; an initial skepticism which would nevertheless permit him to believe. He would, in short, be the maker and guardian of his own mind...
Last week President Harry Truman sent Under Secretary of State Edward Miller to San Jose, the cool, green capital of Costa Rica. There, amidst the yellow silk tapestries of the one-story' Foreign Office, Miller pinned on a beaming, weeping Ulate the U.S. white-&-gold Legion of Merit in the highest grade for "exceptionally meritorious conduct" in office...
...fine, and the Genoa citizenry which moves naturally through its city adds to the film's authenticity. The acting is excellent: Jean Gabin is convincingly weary and revived as the Frenchman; Isa Miranda is appropriately tender and brave as the woman who revives him and who finds satisfaction amidst poverty; and Vera Talchi is very good as her canny 11-year-old daughter...
...opera's central character (Beret), a "fine sensitive woman" who cracks up from pioneering hardships, gets lost amidst homecomings, claim jumpings, a wedding, baptism and a final invasion of locusts. The result: Giants in the Earth totted up as more of a series of tableaux (or a bad western) than an opera...