Word: amidst
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Throughout the past weeks, the media has been preparing for their yearly climax amidst the hubbub surrounding football's biggest game. At times it seems all this concern for production is overshadowing the true purpose of the day: football...
...Amidst the ringing praise for his wisdom and charm, darker moments in the complex relationship between the European-born U.S. Secretary and the Continent's leaders were mostly forgotten. The much-vaunted Year of Europe that Kissinger had advocated in 1973, without prior consultation, had outraged the allies. In the oil crisis and embargo of the same year, Kissinger privately described the Europeans as "craven" for failing to stand up to the oil producers. He exacerbated troubled U.S. relations with Greece and Turkey during the Cyprus invasion of 1974. Yet, as the Europeans well-and gratefully-realized...
...defense department, later as opposition spokesman on Rhodesia and most recently at the U.N., where he got into a widely publicized conflict last year with his former American colleague Daniel Moynihan. Shocked by Moynihan's attacks on the Third World, Richard likened him to "Lear raging amidst the storm on the blasted heath" and "Savonarola in the role of an avenging angel preaching retribution and revenge." Says Richard amiably but unrepentantly: "I disagreed with him on how one should treat the U.N.-whether it is a serious body in which one could have a sensible dialogue with the Third...
...Amidst all of this, in the late 60 s, whatever else was gained or lost, whatever one may feel about tactics, methods, and all that, something of real and revolutionary significance happened to many, many minority students. They gained pride, and they learned how to express it, to benefit from it. The other things that happened--the new courses in "relevant" topics and a renewed commitment from admissions offices to recruit more minority students, and a few other things--these things happened and have become permanent threads in the school fabric...
...world, yet an other trip through country similar to that traversed in The Exorcist and The Omen. But there is a pointed glee in De Palma's satirical vision of high school society, an oddly compelling power in his juxtaposition of the banal and the awesome moving unsuspected amidst it. The moral reckoning to which that all leads may be curious, but it is surely cautionary. In any event, the journey to that reckoning is an exercise in high style that even the most unredeemably rational among moviegoers should find enormously enjoyable...