Word: benightedness
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Powell is unfit to represent any group of people in Congress, let alone those benighted souls in Harlem, who need the most capable leadership and guidance that can be found among their numbers. ROBERT A. SMITHEY University of Wisconsin Madison
Supporters this year should learn from the mistakes of the 1965 attempt. Last year the citizens' committee tried so hard to avert religious controversy that the public remained apathetic, and the legislators were allowed to be swayed by a handful of religious reactionaries and an unjustified fear of condemnation by...
Too often, television seems esthetically a benighted land; the networks may curse the darkness they have created, but they leave it to the independent and educational channels to light candles of culture. Two glowing examples from the current season:
Moments later, birds' wings flutter above the benighted churchmen, who gape at the charred pillar, already uncertain whether they have incinerated a heretic, or a saint.
Beirut has four universities, and publishes more books and magazines than even Cairo. Next to tiny, oil-rich Kuwait, it has the highest per-capita income in the Arab world ($500 annually); yet public and social services are woefully inadequate. Every rainstorm knocks out the power and phone systems, and...