Word: dearth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unfortunate that Horowitz's Empire and Revolution will only arouse attention in radical or academic circles. But given America's ideological composition, it seems hardly accidental that there is such a dearth of radical historical analyses in the public educational system...
...campus, the reaction to the dearth of jobs ranges from nonchalance to panic to anger?an anger often directed at the colleges that trained the students to no seeming purpose. Some speak darkly about the creation of a new "intellectual proletariat...
Since the purpose of a teach-in is to present various speakers' views, I thought it significant that only one speaker admitted to accepting SJP's invitation. Additionally, Cox implied-as did several other administration people-that a dearth of adequate speakers was the primary issue involved in your cancellation...
...quotes Chairman Daniel Bell's advice to "think wild." Then he shows how little wild thinking anybody dared to do, even Doomsday Prophet Herman Kahn, who came equipped with statistics, charts and projections. "What is surprising about Kahn's world view," comments Thompson, "is its utter dearth of imagination...
...English are old hands at draft evasion, what with the dearth of central heating. But it's harder with your clothes off. The London cast of Kenneth Tynan's Oh! Calcutta! got so cold standing, sitting and walking around onstage in the nude or near-nude that they threatened to get dressed. "If they do it," said Theater Owner Paul Raymond, "I'll ring down the curtain and give everybody their money back." But eventually he did turn the heating on earlier than usual; and stepped up the under-the-floor calorie content. "It's made...