Word: amidst
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doctors are convinced that the addition of a minute amount of fluorine (usually in the form of sodium fluoride) is the best way to prevent tooth decay, a large number of citizens' groups loudly oppose it, contending that fluoridation is a Communist plot to poison the nation. Amidst this fuss, two University of Rochester professors last week published a massive monograph with all the pertinent facts, pro and con, on the matter. In their 786-page Fluorine Chemistry, Volume IV (Academic Press; $28), Dr. Harold C. Hodge and Dr. Frank A. Smith compile the important evidence that has been...
...calls Upward Bound -about 2,500 high school kids are enrolled in eight-week summer-training courses at 17 colleges, while another 25 projects are still privately financed. The Tragic View. Like Columbia's Double Discovery, the projects pluck kids out of stifling home environments, plop them down amidst such relative grandeur as the ivy-covered arches of Yale's Divinity School or the modernity of Western Washington State College's new Ridgeway Dormitory complex. "Why, this is a brand-new building!" cried one girl at Western Washington. "I thought you'd put us somewhere where...
...above and Lake Tahoe below. Just getting there is half the fun. On the valley floor, couples are guided into four-seater gondolas by an attendant. After skimming through a notch in a granite cliff and floating over forests of white pine and ponderosa, they bump to a stop amidst the sound of music echoing about the uppermost peaks...
...people were notorious for their practice of the black-magic juju; human sacrifices were common. And though the Portuguese navigators who discovered the realm in 1472 tried to convert the natives to Christianity, the only relict that stuck when they left was the concept and practice of crucifixion. Amidst a dark rain forest, Benin became a terrifying, slave-trading, yet advanced civilization centered in a city with 30 broad streets surrounded by ramparts ten feet high...
...Chagall could not long escape into the world of theater and ballet. The disasters of war inflamed him, and in 1943 he painted the Yellow Crucifixion. Amidst acidic yellows and greens, Vitebsk burns, a ship sinks, a ladder is half-posed to remove Christ from the Cross. In his Falling Angel, begun in 1923 and not finished until 1947, the whole world violently disintegrates, with a rabbi fleeing with the Torah and an angel hemorrhaging down through a tempest-torn...