Word: freshet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heavy burden of learning and the rigorous formal demands of the New Criticism of Ransom and Tate dammed up the first freshet of his verse. His poems were blocked with a deliberate opaque quality, as if he feared that clarity were a sign of mediocrity. Still, he seemed stimulated by restraint. He emerged from Kenyon summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa and class valedictorian. He also emerged a Roman Catholic convert and a husband...
...what came out was a freshet of lush sound that exploited the limits of the instrument's capabilities. At 38, Mstislav Rostropovich is ranked by many critics as the foremost heir to the mantle of Pablo Casals, now 88. More impetuous than the visionary Casals, Rostropovich's attack is charged with a propulsive urgency, his singing tone more darkly burnished...
Discussing the period after the civil rights bill first reached the Senate, Dirksen recalls that "We sort of let the thing simmer and jell, waiting to see what would happen. We knew that we could expect a freshet of long speeches. We knew that for about 30 days nothing would happen...
...Harnwell Climate." Long dominated by its graduate schools, the University of Pennsylvania has upgraded its undergraduate liberal arts college, loosed a freshet of liberal learning throughout its technical schools, and started pruning its 2,000 courses, which still include such "guts" as business-letter writing. For the first time, coed Penn's 18,347 (10,354 fulltime) students are griping about a "grind school." For the first time, grand old Penn is reaching briskly for clarity and corporate purpose...
Their staple crop, presumably grown on the river flats after the annual freshet, was lima beans, but they also ate reed shoots, berries and an unidentified tuber. They caught fish with hooks made by tying tender young thorns into a hook shape and letting them harden that way. They had no cotton or wool, but they wove cloth and fish nets of coarse fibers...