Word: amidst
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This summer marked the thirteenth season of the Boston Summer Theatre. In its first eleven years, it averaged one or two works of top quality each season amidst a mass of mediocrity. Last summer producer Lee Falk offered nothing but plays of high quality--Jonson's Volpone, Anouilh's Thieves' Carnival, Fry's Venus Observed, Shaw's Back to Methuselah, Giraudoux's The Madwoman of Chaillot, and Graham Greene's The Potting Shed. The 1958 season of eight plays constituted a letdown from last year, but it was far better than all the pre-1957 seasons...
Summoned into emergency session three weeks ago amidst Russian cries of threatening war, the U.N. General Assembly met in Manhattan to defuse the international time bombs threatening the peace of the Middle East. Last week, after eight days of palaver, the Assembly brought forth its own novel method of bomb disposal. The technique: wrap the infernal device in verbal cotton wool-this deadens that unpleasant ticking sound-and tiptoe quickly away...
...kissing a girl: "I'm six foot two and a half tall; I've got to start some time." Replies Robert Morse, his shy fellow clerk: "I'm five foot five, so it isn't so urgent for me." Brought off at breakneck speed amidst a kaleidoscope of neck-breaking pratfalls, this chatter and unabashed clowning by all hands turn Matchmaker into a highly amusing farce...
...televised blurbs, so understated at first that it was sometimes hard to tell what was being advertised, are now couched largely in such hard-sell terms that they seem downright un-British. But there is still an undertone of restraint; e.g., amidst a bunch of filmed interviews with housewives who swear by a detergent called Omo, the British admen have included one housewife who candidly states that she does not use Omo, has no intention of ever trying it. Makes it seem more authentic, they explain...
Several minutes later, the student makes his way down the path to Quincy Street. Morning hopefuls are already streaming into the Union. He takes his place in line, amidst the clangor and clash of trays, silverware, and carts being pushed out of the dining room...