Word: mid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Midsummer Night's Dream, inconveniently is punctuated by the discovery of a sleeping character by his lover, rival or master. It is not necessary that characters be concealed in subterranean niches until the proper moment, but surely it is not desirable that they be left like public statues in mid-stage. The scene in which Hermia and Helena tear at each other becomes silly because of the fidgetings of onlookers who could be set apart from the women if there were a larger stage...
Most economists, businessmen and congressional experts expressed only varying degrees of doubt last January when Gardner Ackley and the Council of Economic Advisers peered at their G.N.P. projections and predicted that the economy would heat up again so much by mid-1967 that a deflationary 6% surtax on personal and corporate income taxes would be necessary. At that time, with many economic indicators turning downward, there seemed to be little reason for such a forecast. Last week, however, Ackley & Co. had visible evidence to support their vision...
...After a mid-week shake-up with the third Varsity, the reseated JV (Bow, Phil Tonks; No. 2 A1 Keith; No. 3 Bill Endicott; No. 4 Fred Fisher; No. 5 Tom Hodges; No. 6 Bob Baker; No. 7 Vidar Jorgenson; Stroke, Garrett Olmstead; Cox, Bill Terranova) jumped off the line to a quick one-length lead...
...Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Chinese army officers forced Ma and his colleagues to clean toilets and break stones in the morning, study the thoughts of Mao Tse-tung and write "confessions" till late at night-an exercise that lasted 50 days. Allowed to return to his music academy in mid-August, he was then set upon by the Red Guards and exposed to the humiliation he described in New York...
...largest number, 107, come from the middle Atlantic states -- New York, New Jersey, and Penn. Ninety-four are from New England, 56 from the South; 44 from the mid-west; and 40 from the far west...