Word: myriad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sarah Lawrence students, according to President Taylor, are "intellectually alive and alert." The myriad activities no doubt contribute to this state of being. Round table discussions and lectures, political and social clubs, publications, chorus and orchestra, and a dance and theatre group abound on Kimball Hill...
Writes White, who later succeeded in training other hawks and the more tractable falcon: "Nothing is more certain than that Gos entangled his jesses in one of the myriad trees of The Ridings, and there, hanging upside down by the mildewed leathers, his bundle of green bones and ruined feathers may still be swinging in the winter wind...
...confirmation, then gently led his wife down to the river's edge and told her that her father was dead. The Queen returned to the lodge on her husband's arm, shaken but in full command of herself. All that afternoon, she kept busy supervising the myriad arrangements for the long trip home, penning formal regrets to the hosts she would have to disappoint, bidding goodbye and signing photographs for the staffers and attendants she was leaving behind...
...outweighs its drawbacks. It has combined shrewd politics with idealistic plans to present the Boston voter for the first time in many a year an alternative to the corrupt and wasteful regime which has monopolized the city for so long. Growing out of the decaying remains of Boston's myriad sterile reformer groups, the New Boston Committee has renewed Bostonians' facing hopes in the efficacy of a popular movement for good government...
...names of people, which it doesn't. Nobody really cares what the Society for Minority Rights did in 1950-51; they do and will care about who was in the Society. Here 315 falls down. It has page after page of far from sprightly text on the activities of myriad teams and organizations; far too little about who was in those organizations. This policy carries over to its pictures. The "firing squad" photographs of groups shoulder-to-shoulder are largely gone, a shrewd move esthetically but a bad one for a scrapbook: it will seriously reduce the book's reference...