Word: inhabitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bygone era, they faced relatively young, vigorous opponents of modern mien and moderate views. Both incumbents suffered from the erosion of the Byrd machine, which has lost some of its far-right adherents to a new Conservative Party. On the other hand, among the independent-minded white voters who inhabit swelling suburban developments in a crescent extending from Washington through Richmond to Norfolk, there is little loyalty to the old regime. In addition, tens of thousands of Negroes have been added to the electorate since passage of the 1965 voting Rights Act and abolition of the poll tax. Negro precincts...
...people who inhabit this environment are no less pre-catching, thanks to the gorgeous costumes by Jane Greenwood. There has been no skimping here. But the swishness has not been distributed indiscriminately: Miss Greenwood has carefully suited all her garments to the essential personalities of their wearers...
Born in Genoa, Montale was raised on the rugged impoverished Ligurian coast, the Waste Land that most of his poems inhabit: "Boulders . . . marshes . . . blistering suns and low air fogged with midges . . . waterspouts like giant trumpets of lead on the flogged horizons." At 21, he exchanged one desolation for another: the trenches of World War I. At 25, he witnessed the collapse of Italian culture under Mussolini. At 29, when he published his first volume of verse (Cuttlefish Bones), he was an apocalyptic pessimist who experienced "existence as entropy" and expressed the experience in language as acrid and compact as Dante...
...Gross was in higher dudgeon than usual. "I couldn't believe my eyes," he told the House, "when I saw the Reverend Moyers, White House press secretary, gyrating halfway down on his knees, doing the watusi. The Reverend Moyers is another of those twinkle toes that inhabit the White House." At that, Baptist Bill Moyers, 31, inhibited himself into the depths of the West Wing and refused any comment on his performance at the Smithsonian Institution bene fit ball. White House Adviser Bob Kintner just burbled: "No matter what dance Bill does, it always comes out looking like...
...Senator Kennedy." Sulzberger wrote: "The Great Debate on Viet Nam policy has been featured by misinformation, passion, political opportunism, vanity, and hints of a smarmy dislike for President Johnson. What has emerged so far is a deep-seated doubt about ourselves and deep-seated ignorance of the world we inhabit. Elegant platitudes founded on myth are offered to the President as substitutes for policy...