Word: amidst
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...affront to the whole of Victorian society and its stiff, sexual repression. Daisy, said one Philadelphian publisher in rejecting the long story written in 1878, was "an outrage to American girlhood." Yet, Daisy is not an outrage: She is the one alive person in the story amidst a virtual morgue of grey propriety. She's also coquettish, a flirt of the worst sort, and a damnable tease. But throughout the story one is never sure if it's not just a reaction to what is expected of her, if in America she wouldn't be the life of the party...
...first produced in New York, the author said he wrote the play because, "I was sore at my whole life." Odets, perhaps the foremost American leftist playwright of the thirties, blends this rebellious anger masterfully with his social concerns in the tragicomedy of a family struggling "for life amidst petty conditions" during the hard times of the Depression...
...Amidst the usual discussions about the viability of proportional representation as a voting procedure, Independent Sullivan won an overwhelming victory. He was followed by four more Independents and three liberals plus radical Saundra Graham, which added up to a 5-4 majority for the Independent contingent...
...three tiny chapels is Modern Fundamentalist. What distinguishes the houses of worship is their mobility. Semitrailers with lighted crosses on their tractor cabs, they belong to Transport for Christ, a nomadic nondenominational mission to the truckers of North America. The mobile chapels can usually be found parked smack amidst a clutter of oil drums, automobiles and other semitrailer rigs at spots like the Mid-Continent Truck Stop in Mesquite, Texas, or the Mass. 10 Truck Stop outside Boston...
...Amidst the rumbling of freight trains rolling along behind Penn's Hollenback Field in Philadelphia, and the constant dugout chatter coming from the Harvard and Quaker squads last Thursday in the late innings of a key double-header, came the voice of Herbie Jones...