Word: amidst
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like a modern Bo Peep, Peggy, at 22, set out for Europe in 1920 to find herself amidst the lost generation. She was determined to become a patroness of this century's avantgarde, and set herself the goal of collecting...
Rhode Island Republican John Chafee warned the legislature that state spending may run as much as $10 million above revenues in 1965, called for "a year of restraint." Republican Chafee, who won a fairly spectacular ticket-splitting victory amidst the Democratic sweep and is being watched as a Republican comer, faces a new test; in the past, he managed to cope with a narrowly Democratic legislature through his veto power, but now both houses have Democratic majorities large enough to override...
With their usual flare for understatement, some critics called the director of M, Fritz Lang, "th greatest of the great." He certainly belongs in the company of brilliant German directors like Wiene, Pabst, and Marnau. In any case, amidst the stultifying holiday cheer, we figured that the best reason for going to the Brattle had little to do with directors--in M, we had heard, one could see Peter Lorre murder little girls...
...digits is the student body of 15,000, due to double in a decade. But Iowa's new president is determined that the school preserve quality amidst growth, even if it means reorganizing the university along the lines of Oxford's residential colleges. "While other institutions may take on a somewhat wider range of programs," he said last week, "I believe our future lies in a carefully restricted scope. Let us emphasize thoroughness and depth rather than versatility and range...
...blame on men but on the bond of parternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity. Had my father lived he would have lain on me at full length and would have crushed me. As luck had it, he died young. Amidst Aeneas and his follows who carry their Anchises on their backs, I move from shore to shore, alone and hating those invisible begetters who bestraddle their sons all their life long...