Word: amidst
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poor today, amidst conspicuous American affluence, is to have many unmet wants. Welfare as an institution is nobody's panacea, especially those who live on it. But to talk of "the shame of the nation" ( News-week, Feb. 8) is merely to say, as liberals have always done, "well what can we do for them...
...even if you consider his politics even more confused than you figure your own, at least he's doing something. And, well, maybe if one of the side effects of this war has been to make someone like Donald Sutherland more than just an actor , well then maybe, even amidst the prevailing evil, one finds planted the seedlings of our victory...
Clavell's intentions are above that order: his story does have real possibilities as a vehicle for communicating the hypnotic attraction of humanist gemiitlichkeit amidst deteriorating world situations. Cross The Seventh Seal with Lost Horizon and you have a good idea of the conception's attractiveness. But it is in his attempt not to play with the material that Clavell manages to kill his situation's bite...
...Amidst all the talk of the possibility of victory, there is the realization that Larry DiCara may not get the call in November, if he makes it that far. He's got alternate plans. DiCara can work full time for the Robert F. Kennedy Action Corps, a community development program he works two full days a week for right now. DiCara also likes to think there's a law school in his future and will apply to Boston's top institutions for admission...
...America's ambassadors and high-level bureaucrats deserve better than that, and they get it, as the French did before them. Native servants, limousines, Swiss boarding schools for their children to compensate for the cultural deprivation of growing up amidst "backwardness, ignorance, and filth." Too bad that Laos-once calculated to be one of the world's two least developed countries-is a pretty poor heap...