Word: meres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is plenty of muscle behind Hopkins' voice too, both physical and emotional. Throaty with raw gospel power, it is a hand-clapping, hip-slap ping sound, a miracle in sheer lustiness. Bessie never strayed far from a strong center tone. Hopkins, who is no mere imitator, stretches out a melody. "I feel good," she squeals after one alpine gliss, and so does the audience...
...most noted in the past as firebrands pushing for ever-higher prices are among those now raising their crude less than the agreed-upon 10%. Algeria has hiked its prices only 8.5%. Indonesia, another former price hawk, raised some quotes but cut others so that its increases average a mere 1.6%. "Basically we are staying put on price, but as a good member of OPEC we had to go through the motions," said Mohammad Sadli, the nation's minister of mines, in Washington last week...
...attitude of University officials towards the community would go a long way towards relieving town-gown tensions. "The scientists at MIT are far more humane than the humanists at Harvard" when it comes to working with the community, Brode said. Harvard administrators are "above being questioned by mere people," he said. "They just haven't thought about their position in the community and what they're doing...
...their celebrated flair for the epic. Religious confrontations, border wars, political sacrifices are illuminated like scenes in a pageant. The very sounds and odors of a vanished world are resurrected-often at the price of subtlety and perspective. For the birth of a nation is not the stuff of mere melodrama; the historical and human scale is too profound...
...Catholic bishops in 1974 printed a typical roll call of contemporary villains: shoplifters, trashers, blue-collar time-clock cheaters, white-collar expense-account padders, tax evaders, political bribe takers, perjurers, economic exploiters, sexual revolutionists, the maritally unfaithful, pornographers, irresponsible mass communicators and those responsible for violent crime. But a mere listing does not do justice to the sense of disease and malaise that is in our hearts, the disappointment and disgust often felt between generations as moral standards are challenged or forgotten, the bewilderment and despair many feel over their loss...