Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shades to the architectural embellishments of Radcliffe's dorms--metamorphosing the Quad into something resembling a child's building block set--would forever remain the sole achievement of Mrs. Bunting's new house system. However much that first product of Radcliffe's revolution may have offended even the most meager aesthetic sensibilities, it has apparently not yet blighted the talent of Radcliffe's artists. The second product of the new system, an art exhibit at South House, provides a most pleasant change from the obnoxious new scrambled-egg color of the dormitories' doors...
...admission to opposition meetings and showered even the most pedestrian speakers with wild applause. Under the dour eyes of police at Lisbon's dingy old Republican Center last week, they chorused "Down with fascism" as candidates denounced government "terrorism" in Africa, Portugal's "medieval" police state and meager living standards (per capita income: less than $200 a year). Said one opposition leader: "We are being forced to live on a little island while others march forward. We are being operated like a private farm...
Lacking educational opportunities and skills, they were victims of a vicious exploitive system under which each family gave three man-days of labor every week in return for a meager plot of land on which to live and farm. A "serf" mentality, inability to make decisions, and complete distrust of outsiders after centuries of being cheated, beaten, and exploited made progress impossible. Vicos and many similar haciendas remained feudal anachronisms in a rapidly changing country...
...Success. Adenauer's Christian Democrats had lost 27 of their 270 seats in the Bundestag, well short of the absolute majority the Chancellor had vowed to retain. With Berlin's spirited Mayor Willy Brandt as their candidate, the Socialists only topped their 1957 vote by a meager 4.5%, wound up with 190 seats. The election's sole victors turned out to be Erich Mende's Free Democrats (see following story). Throughout Adenauer's slugging match with Brandt, the Free Democrats had quietly recruited fugitives from both major parties, wound up with nearly double their...
...never went back to secondary school, decided instead to become an artist, put in a year at Prague's Academy of Fine Arts. Reder earned a meager living doing statues for the Czernowitz cemetery until a fresh outburst of anti-Semitism drove him away, and for the next 20 years he was never to settle in one place for long. He worked in Prague and in France, where he became the devoted friend of Sculptor Aristide Maillol. He escaped to Spain when the Nazis swept into France, only to be thrown into jail for illegal entry. Released without explanation...