Word: dearth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wants most to impress prospective buyers. Small consolation though it may be to the new subscriber, the latest issue, with the single exception of John Ratte's fine cover portraying his conception of the bowels of the MTA, is below par. The editors have attempted to compensate for the dearth of material with a new art supplement, which is generally a good idea, albeit a third of the collection might well have been omitted...
...lead active, useful lives. In South Korea there are now four prosthetic stations; Torrey and his fellow missionaries have fitted more than 800 artificial limbs and treated nearly 1,000 amputees. There is little likelihood that the work will diminish: land mines, unexploded shells, unguarded railway crossings, and the dearth of safety devices on machinery will bring thousands more to the clinic...
...those Catholics who do achieve eminence, studies of the American Catholic Who's Who and Who's Who in America indicate that more than half of them do so in three fields: religion, law and education. "The dearth of Catholics eminent in many other occupations." says Kane, "is rather startling...
...this poem. The solemn cadence of the meter lends to Grossman's piece a suitable gravity. In "Two Symbols of Reality," Peter Junger uses a sexton as the symbol of death's irony: "Proudly he seeds the rotting earth and plucks sweet fruits out of the mourner's dearth," And his priest who takes "all sins upon his head" seems to be the symbol of human compassion. As a whole, the poem resolves itself into a conflict between the spiritual and material, and Junger's conception of their different roles in death...
Faced with a temporary dearth of student plays, the New Theatre Workshop has transferred its experimenting from the realm of writing to the realm of theatre techniques. Three one-act plays by Tennessee Williams provide fare for the Workshop's first program, which surprisingly enough, offers little in the way of innovation...