Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...true that he is a certified Seer of Apollo, and the future drifts before his eyes as effortlessly as the past or the present. So the reader need not be really surprised to find Lycurgus (spelled Ly-kourgos, in the barbarous tradition of contemporary university classics departments), a dim semi-mythological figure, flinging out his arms in V-for-victory signs like General de Gaulle, or to hear members of the Lacedaemonian jet set chatter psychoanalysis, market analysis and Black Panther ideology while they swap wives by the suburban swimming pool...
...dishes. A helicopter mechanic never mows the parade grounds. There are no inspections on Saturday mornings to delay enjoyment of a weekend pass. No one stands in line for anything for more than 15 minutes. The purpose of each training exercise is explained so clearly that even the most dim-witted recruit gets the point. Above all, each man is a soldier because he wants...
...eagle is the U.S. The verse is part of a protest song that is popular in the cafés and boîtes of Santiago. In the dim light of those peñas folklóricas, as they are known, Chilean students representing every shade of the leftist spectrum?from Christian Democrat to anarchic urban terrorist?gather to sing their praise of Fidel Castro's Cuba and their passionate hatred of the local oligarchy...
...cream," recalls one professor, "and when he ate it he clutched the side of his mouth in pain-his teeth were full of cavities." Violent headaches were common, until teachers realized that many students were too poor to buy needed eyeglasses. Even with glasses, they took a dim view of standard English courses rich in Henry James and Christina Rossetti, whose polished phrases merely provoked bored back-row obscenities...
...Watt Grin. Given such raw dramaturgy, such dim insights, who could possibly have thought The Great White Hope worthwhile? James Earl Jones, for one. And in fact he proves that the role of Jefferson is an actor's dream. Though he played it 429 times onstage, Jones has, if anything, grown fresher. He does not act the part so much as consume it, then let it shine out of his eyes and resound in his mouth: "If I lets it go too long, then everybody say, now ain't dat one shiftless nigger . . . an' if I chop...