Word: richer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pilgrims debarked from the Mayflower, the settlement at Jamestown was thirteen years old. Long ago before Squanto taught the New England Separatists how to fish and raise crops, the Virginians were exporting thousands of pounds of tobacco to satisfy the nicotine hunger of England. Jamestown was earlier, bigger, and richer than Plymouth. Yet we commemorate the Pilgrims' first good harvest, and all but ignore the Virginia colony...
...holiday we will go through the motions of celebrating next week no longer represents the spirit and values of the nation. Americans regard affluence as a birthright, not a providential boon. There is no point in our communing with an impoverished past as long as we keep on getting richer...
...have always had the cream," boasts New York City Ballet's George Balanchine, "but now with more danc ers going through the sieve, the cream is richer than ever before. Our company is packed with great dancers. Any one of them would be a prima ballerina with any other company...
...whose experience of sexual intercourse is limited or infrequent. Here we are at one point where premarital sexual experiments are radically misleading. Happiness in marriage depends on other factors. It depends on a love and a loyalty which can stand the long-range test for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health. No premarital relationship can test these things...
Paradoxically, Fiddler's conscientious good taste may have robbed it of the richer seasoning of the Sholem Aleichem tales it comes from. Fiddler does not swell with Aleichem's yeasty joy, pain and mystery of living. Zero does...