Word: feasts
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Toynbee's work attracted relatively little attention and less praise when it first appeared. Reviewing the first three volumes in 1935, the Journal of Modern History sniffed: "A Gargantuan feast, shall we say? Or is it hash and not chopped up fine enough at that?" In 1947. however, in the postwar search for international understanding, Toynbee suddenly experienced the truth of the Victor Hugo remark about an idea whose time has come. A one-volume abridgment of the first six books of the study sold a phenomenal quarter of a million copies. (An abridgment of Vols...
...victims of "regression at the worst, status quo government at the best." Non-incumbent Mary Ann Preusser (CC '75) said she sees the recent changes in the city as only indications of what could come. "We've had the hors d'oeuvres before what could be a feast," she said...
...case, an insect with jointed feet−the common mosquito−that has been particularly numerous and active in large areas of the U.S. this year. Mosquitoes pick up the arboviruses when they bite birds, which usually carry the viruses without being ill themselves, and transmit them when they feast on the blood of their next victim...
Helsinki certainly need not be exaggerated into a feast of friendship, but neither should it be exaggerated into a moral disaster. Ford later retorted: "It has been my policy ever since I entered public life to support the aspirations for freedom... of the peoples of Eastern Europe ... by every proper and peaceful means." That was a way of endorsing Kissinger's earlier response to Solzhenitsyn: that there is no alternative to coexistence, for all its dangers and moral ambiguities. By week's end, Ford was off to Helsinki via West Germany and Eastern Europe, whose people may have...
...guest speakers. You can hear author-photographer Jurgen Vollmer reminisce about the days when the Beatles were Teddy Boys in Germany, or listen to Richard DiLello talk about what it was like to be an office boy at Apple, Ltd. And if that's not enough, you can feast your eyes and ears on eight solid hours of unreleased Beatle films...