Word: amidst
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...ability to find small moments of imperishability in a world that does not encourage it. Vertigo makes us enjoy the peaceful pleasures of life. By that, Kundera means the life-saving sight of someone you deeply care about sleeping serenely by your side or holding her hand amidst the shipwreck of civilization. Vertigo is about finding meaning in experience, and if having not found it, to make...
...church, a set of lockers for the high school, a poker table and couch for the Reverend’s living room. But the set changes are no less impressive because of this simplicity—the props are moved off and on the stage so quickly and efficiently amidst music and dance numbers that the show had moved from one scene to the next before I knew it.Harvard S.T.A.G.E. has produced a fun and swanky “Footloose” that will bowl over any theater buffs, music lovers, or anyone who just likes...
...Paradise, of course, is a relative term. And in their African paradise, the Canadians saw little besides fresh mangoes and a swinging ex-pat nightclub scene. Amidst all their caring, none of them studied Swahili, preventing them from communicating with those they ostensibly wanted to help...
...join the World Trade Organization, and the host of the G8 summit this July in St. Petersburg. Especially in this context, the West must remember that nothing has really changed since the times of either Peter the Great or Lenin: Russia cares about its pride, not about global security. Amidst the rhetorical battle on the prospects of an American strike, Iran remains the world’s most delicate international crisis. An American-induced Security Council bill to curtail Teheran’s nuclear ambitions will inexorably fail due to implicit opposition from Beijing and Moscow. For China...
...many Western minds, the Kurdish-dominated, mountainous northern part of Iraq is an island of relative stability amidst the chaos and bloodshed that wreak havoc in the rest of the country. In fact, with the Kurds boxed in on all sides by jealous and often unfriendly neighbors, that image has always been a bit misguided. But lately the sectarian tensions that surround the Kurdish enclave have begun to make their presence felt more strongly, threatening not just the Kurds' way of life but U.S. hopes for bringing some measure of peace and stability to all of Iraq...