Word: darker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chaos of cutthroat competition, was forming monoliths of monopoly. Labor was adolescent, agitated, angry. Government at best was minimal and at worst could be bought. The radical vote was rising. Said Theodore Roosevelt: "There had been in our country a riot of individualistic materialism . . ." But the darker portent, as the new President saw it. was that the nation was lurching out of certainty into uncertainty, from faith to doubt, from classlessness to class, from dedication to don't care, in a downgrading of the land of promise into a factory in which the gates of opportunity might snap shut...
Gordis pays tribute to the "sincerity and idealism" of Christian leaders, but he is not impressed with their 2,000-year record: "In no area of the world has there been a darker record of wars, bigotry, tyranny and persecution than in the Christian world." A new emphasis may be indicated, "if not a different conception of man's nature and duty and of relationship to the universe. Perhaps Judaism can supply this need...
...lack of height (under 5 ft. 5 in.). He made his successful Met debut as Alvaro in Forza del Destino, and his Edgardo in last week's Lucia di Lammermoor had the house cheering. His secure, robust voice approaches the stentorian singing of Mario Del Monaco, although darker and not so piercing...
Halevy's decision caused the fall of Premier Moshe Sharett's Cabinet, and it was re-formed in bitterness and distrust. Kastner quit his government job, withdrew from the list of Mapai candidates and, a broken man, lived in what he called a loneliness "blacker than night, darker than hell...
During the quietest hours one night at Salt Lake County General Hospital, a University of Utah medical student noticed that the floor tiles seemed to be pulsating and growing alternately lighter and darker. A colleague saw the head of a grey-haired woman sticking out of the doorway of an all-male ward. A third saw smoke coming from the linoleum floor, and as he watched, it turned into a fine spray of water. Another saw a roll of luminous chicken wire on the floor, but it disappeared as he walked through it. Several heard voices from afar...