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Marion said that he would prefer to take Varsity fencers because a large degree of experience and stamina is required to get through the grueling 40-bout weekend. He is forced to rely on the freshmen, though, because of the dearth of Varsity talent in the foil and epee...
...Hannah Arendt's provocative study on the Eichmann case, there has been no end of speculation along the lines of her major thesis: that the Nazis could not have succeeded in their slaughter of the Jews without the almost lamblike acquiescence of their victims. And there was no dearth of angry disagreement. These two books are the latest in a still-growing list that challenges the Arendt argument. In The Holocaust, Philadelphia-based Historian Nora Levin maintains that the Jews "resisted physically much more than is generally known, and under conditions that are scarcely credible." In While Six Million...
...dearth of traveling companions. In Maryland, Governor Spiro Agnew announced that he would organize a draft-Rockefeller movement "in response to the ground swell of public opinion that I have seen developing." Sixty-six prominent Republicans in Oregon set up a similar group, vowing they would conduct a Rockefeller write-in campaign for the Oregon primary should he refuse to allow his name on the ballot. Said Governor Tom McCall: "If this effort can help bring Rockefeller into the Oregon primary, then its sponsors will have performed a public service of national magnitude...
...draw a greater diversity of performers, and blames this circumstance on poor publicity and timing. I suggest that most past contests have received no more publicity than this, and that they have all been scheduled for the first or second week of reading period. This year's dearth of competitors is not symptomatic of any great trend: two years ago there was a much larger number (although the judges at that time felt that none of them were qualified to solo with...
...money would have been enlarged by the substance of mores. The possibility is hinted at in the pointed performances of Nelson and Bel Geddes. As their faces fall apart with their world, the desolating emptiness that is left comes not from a shortage of cash but from a dearth of purpose...