Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...matter what happened at Geneva, the key question remaining seemed to be how the Princes Souvanna Phouma and Souphanouvong would split up power between them once they take over Laos. Here, too, the outlook was dim. Souvanna is recognized by the Communists as Premier, and 2,000 good troops commanded by Captain Kong Le support him. Both Kong Le and Souvanna insist that they do not want a Communist Laos. But Souphanouvong, a Mephistophelean-looking fellow in his sideburns and trim mustache, is a hardened Communist guerrilla. His sneaker-shod troops total 12,000 and are veterans of jungle fighting...
Only a few dim clues remain to suggest where the great emperor lived. But early this year Professor Gianfilippo Carettoni, a government archaeologist, started searching for Augustus' house on the Palatine. Diggers soon uncovered the tops of hefty brick foundation piers mingled with older stone walls outlining two rooms...
...took a modest pride in the K. und K. emblems fastened to many of the city's landmarks. They seemed an appropriate gesture, even though the emblems stand not for Kennedy and Khrushchev but for Kaiserliche and Königliche (Imperial and Royal), and date from the already dim but recent past, when Vienna was the seat of the Austro-Hungarian Empire...
...chorus's light, luminous sonority, when it sang Tallis's Lamentations of Jeremiah, almost seemed to dim the lights, as is the tradition when the text is sung in Holy Week Matins. Nonetheless, its complex fabric was not very apparent. In Schutz' 84th Psalm it displayed excellent control of its vigor and contrasts. The Choral Society contributed six delightfully cool and sweet songs by Schumann, the chorus maintaining an airy tone and a group of soloists spun an intricate, but occasionally ill-balanced, texture. Three choruses of Haydn ended the concert on a tender, almost sentimental note. They were, indeed...
Last week readers of the New York Times were treated to another dim view: a survey of U.S. theological schools, which showed a 5.3% drop in Protestant enrollments last year-1,125 fewer students for the ministry than the 1959 total of 20,365. The survey's conclusion: Protestantism is failing to demonstrate its "relevance" in the modern world. Other contributing factors are the lure of higher salaries in industry and science, the increased cost of theological education, the end of the post-Korea flood of students on the G.I. Bill of Rights...