Word: flock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early '50s, some British poets announced themselves as The Movement, a loose flock of low-flying larks (among them Donald Davie, Thorn Gunn, Kingsley Amis, John Wain) who sang in the same octave quietly. They favored a formal elegance, but at the same time retained the note of natural speech, the "neutral tone" of voice in which the British customarily discuss love, death and the weather...
...favor. For every Rockefeller or Kennedy who was not spoiled by great inherited wealth, you will find an aimless, unhappy man, an alcoholic, and even a suicide now and then. As for your wife, if you leave her more money than she needs, you are surely inviting a flock of hand-kissing experts...
...praise from Liberal Establishmentarian James Reston. Washington bureau chief of the New York Times, who thought the Review's firm stand might encourage the Republican Party to rusticate Welch and all other extremists of his breed. Such recognition should compensate for the risks in criticizing a man whose flock doubtless numbers some subscribers to the National Review...
...fact, the swelling flock of unlettered immigrants was not much interested in higher learning. Putting first things first, the bishops in 1884 ordered every parish to build a parochial school. Not until 1908, when Pius X converted the U.S. "mission church" to full status, did the real history of Catholic higher education begin. Various religious orders then began building colleges (all jealously independent) at a fabulous rate: since 1909, Catholic college enrollment has jumped...
...intense as Casanova, still was something other than a fool with a strong constitution and a good memory. He had no malice and little self-deception, much humor and courage. While Portuguese sailors caught in a hurricane might, as he reported with British condescension, abandon their sails and flock round their priest, he himself had the perseverance that built an empire: "When, as was sometimes the case, I felt the wine disposed to revolt, chewing two or three French olives without swallowing the pulo would enable me to get down half a dozen more glasses...