Word: amidst
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...designed to please. "These are very clear images of woman's situation expressed as works of art," said Judy Chicago, the program's cofounder. "In essence you walk into female reality and are forced to identify with women." Thus the linen closet showed a manikin housewife trapped amidst the laundry, and the "Womb Room" consisted of a thicket of fibers that drooped, in Chicago's words, "like an exhausted uterus." In the flesh-colored kitchen, fried eggs made from sponge were stuck to the walls and ceiling, and some of them were transmuted into human breasts...
...Amidst all the administrative cat and mouse play which unfortunately left the ball resting in Whitlock's lap. Gensler and Farago resigned from People Switchboard, as pledged, and with the exception of a bare minimum of publicity work, they ceased to work in any major capacity on the project. The two seniors were no longer willing to continue their major effort unless they could be assured by the Administration that the project had a future in Harvard College. Following his resignation, Gensler told Whitlock that continuing to man the Switchboard as they had would be like "beating a dead horse...
...THEN, amidst all this panoramic pandemonium, Stanley Kunitz appeared like a revelation. Revelation? Perhaps his coming was more like the salvation of the American poetic sensibility. He, like some of the other American poets who followed him, had translated Yevtushenko's poems in Stolen Apples. Since most of the translators do not read Russian, they were evidently given literal translations to adapt, according to their own styles, into English. "The result--these English adaptations--" writes Anthony Kahn in his translator's preface to the book, "are interchanges between one poet and another." Accordingly, I suppose, Kunitz and the other American...
WHEN WE drove onto the grounds of the Thanh Hoa Hospital compound, there were dozens of people at work building new structures amidst the rubble left from the recent U.S. air strike. At the same time, they were also constructing bomb shelters...
...Haydon, who had been trailing Baughman for most of the later stages of the race, pulled ahead, but Baughman hung on and came back in the final lap to touch Haydon out amidst some atypical top-of-the-lungs screaming from the Harvard crowd. "Hell, I wasn't going to let him get me after I had been leading the whole race," Baughman said afterwards...