Word: benightedness
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Thanks to medicine (and medicine's pals) more people reach old age nowadays -even in benighted Europe. Dr. Martin Gumpert, 62, looks on the bright side of that fact. Old age is not always second childhood, says he. "There is often, instead, a second prime." In this week'...
On his feet and puffing a big cigar after many toasts, he let them in on his plans. He would continue to record, for the "benighted and tone-starved multitudes of the New World who lack the advantages of English musical culture." More important, he let them in on the...
Yet The God-Seeker scarcely seems more than a rough sketch for a novel. It wavers between a sympathetic view of Aaron's religious questionings and a breezy freethinker's ridicule of the pretensions of the faithful. It likewise wavers between its realistic portrait of prairie life and...
Graham Greene has indulged this nostalgia and stayed at this level in four thrillers, all of which have been made into profitable and pulse-racing movies. But, unlike other thrillers of the gut & gat school, his "entertainments," as he calls them (in contrast to his serious novels), are not just...
"Such light," Laborite Lord Pakenham† told Britain's House of Lords last month during a debate on atomic energy, "as has been thrown on dark places has shown them to be even darker than was supposed." The benighted areas referred to were the minds of Russians.