Word: descends
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...never seems to have doubted that the "religious war" against Hitler would be won. "Once the German problem has been dealt with," he wrote, "the real problems will become apparent." These haunted his dreams and letters: "For centuries, humanity has been descending an immense staircase whose top is hidden in the clouds and whose lowest steps are lost in a dark abyss. We could have ascended this staircase; instead we chose to descend it. Spiritual decay is terrible." The man who hurtled through the sky with the help of technology felt out of place in the 20th century ("I cannot...
...still recorded plain, unadorned by music or echo chambers. But the tape of Stephen King's The Mist is enhanced by what Simon & Schuster calls 3-D sound: voices are accompanied by rustling leaves, slithering tentacles, the flapping of prehistoric winds and the crawling of spiders as they descend on a small New England town. The latest Warner tapes are described by Deutsch as a "new version of old-time radio," complete with scores and sounds. Chaim Potok's The Chosen (Warner), read by Eli Wallach, is augmented by news broadcasts, crowd noises and mood music; Louis L'Amour...
Before we descend into a quicksand of depression and despondency, however, we do well to remember that although both Harvard's and the Statue's birthdays may have occured at times of trouble--the turmoil of the Continental Congress, the Post-Reconstruction birth pangs of a reconstituted nation, and the eve of World War II--the greatest moments in the lives of the Statue and the College were always on the heels of these birthdays or just over the horizon...
Though some 30,000 alumni and friends of the University will descend upon Cambridge to take part in the gala festivities planned for this September, less than 6000 of Harvard's 190,000 living alumni will be class representatives, serving as official participants of the four-day extravaganza...
...will cost the University well over $1 million. The Prince of Wales and the Boston Pops will be there, even if President Ronald Reagan will not. And up to 40,000 or so undergraduates, alumni and friends of the College will be wined, dined, enlightened and entertained when they descend upon the Yard during the first week of September to take part...