Word: amidst
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...action from which heroic yarns are spun. Rather, he saw in combat and heard expressed the neuroses of belligerent officers, the fears and daily preoccupations of draftees and enlisted men, and the perpetual, decidedly, mundane struggle of Vietnamese peasants and their children to live and to grow amidst the never-ending holocaust. The very title of his book Obscenities underscores the accuracy of his perspective; however cruel or blackly comic the words or actions he records, we are constantly aware of their idiosyncratic relationship to the human spirit...
...would like to thank my anonymous correspondents for sharing with me such a precious moment. I too have felt the chill of the cold air of the iron New England dark. What we must do, we from more gracious climes, is to try to preserve our passion amidst what often seems an all-compelling frigidity. Again, how flattering to be thought of during such an important moment. Kevin Starr Assistant Prof. of English Aliston Burr Senior Tutor, Eliot House
...Committee on the Status of Women in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences." The report--the result of a year's research by a committee co-chaired by Caroline W. Bynum, assistant professor of History, and Michael L. Walzer, professor of Government--came out in April, 1971, amidst great publicity. The largest Faculty meeting of last year accepted the report and adopted four of its specific points. The study was done at the invitation of Dean Dunlop, yet he has continually emphasized that the report is in no way binding...
...Amidst all the obsequious effusions, there was a glancing barb at the Queen's taste in hats-"For 20 years the same hat, to avoid hurting her hatter's feelings," teased one columnist...
...clever and affecting as "The Statue" of a war hero that cynically comments on the inscription at its feet and the cant of passersby. But sometimes Ralston lets his marionette affectations dominate numbers that would be better played naturally. Paula Rose is the "Timid Frieda" and keeps her reserve amidst the general flamboyance: she is a useful touchstone for calm and excels in romantic numbers such as "I Loved...