Word: frequently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...defense of Advance, recently published a "partial check-list of subversive opinions," based on official Communist Party pronouncements. As could be expected, peace, civil rights, and farm subsidies are subversive. Higher wages and the shorter work week are, too. Consumer protection, rent control and reduction of taxes--frequent objectives of the Democratic Party--have also made the blacklist. Better job opportunities and educational facilities for young people, slum clearance, and anti-discriminatory housing provisions are also Communist goals...
Returning to London last week from one of his frequent trips to Brussels, Giuseppe Enrico Gilberto Martelli was grabbed at the airport by Scotland Yard's Special Branch and formally accused of violating Britain's Official Secrets Act. The wording of the charge suggested that he was accused only of preparing to transmit secret information to "an enemy." Britons wondered if they were in for yet another installment in the series of espionage scandals that have been making headlines for nearly 20 years...
...household in which William James grew up was unusual: besides James himself it contained three other exceptionally gifted individuals. Henry James, the father, was a frequent writer on religious topics, a friend of Emerson and Carlyle, and a conversationalist of primary magnitude. Brother Henry turned to England and the novel. And William's sister Alice, whom some felt to be the brightest member of the family, suffered throughout her life from a particularly severe variation of the frailty cum neurasthenia that afflicted her brothers...
...probably Annabella herself. A quiet, humorless, literal-minded girl, she took all of Byron's Gothic romancing with impenetrable solemnity. For a man like Byron, thinks Elwin, the temptation to pile extravagance on extravagance must have been almost irresistible once he found an audience that responded to his frequent, mysterious allusions to "atrocious crimes" and "abominable secrets" in his past. Annabella apparently believed that Byron had committed murder while traveling in the Mediterranean, and solemnly noted that during his brandy bouts he ranted wildly of his conquests ("In 1813 he had absolute criminal Connections with an old Lady...
Weep (it is frequent in human affairs), weep for the terrible magnificence of the means, The ridiculous incompetence...