Word: benightedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Price is not best known for the incendiary qualities of his music. His keyboard skills have been celebrated since his days as a cornerstone member of the Animals, one of the most vigorous of the Beatles-era British rock groups. His songs for Lindsay Anderson's mock epic of...
Social historians will date the decline of the cocktail party from the summer of 1975, when chic people first asked for "a little white wine with soda and ice," instead of the traditional rum, whisky or gin. The reasons for this shift are obscure. It is usually said that Americans...
This is only the work of a poet benighted;
In the benighted annals of Columbia football, Saturday, September 23, 1978 will remain forever a halcyon day, as the Lions shocked Harvard, 21-19, before an opening day crowd at Harvard Stadium. The last Columbia victory in Cambridge came in 1961 when the Lions were led by a sinewy guard...
The film does not shrink from portraying the natives as largely a benighted, scruffy lot who are driven to practicing their own reciprocal racism. Two uncomprehending priests, being borne in divans by sweating natives, are charmed by a work song that actually says, "My white man is fat as a...