Word: scant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scholarship Fund for Negro Students, at Manhattan's Junior High School 43 on the western fringe of Harlem. No school could have been better chosen. Its students (85% Negro and Puerto Rican) 'rere demoralized and uninterested; de-leatist parents saw little future for their children and took scant notice of their schooling...
Adults may disapprove, but today's young Western Europeans, from 25 on down, represent something new and promising on the crosspatch old face of the Continent. Growing up in the aftermath of World War II, they have scant interest in the traditional rivalries that fueled it, are subtly but surely moving toward a common European mentality...
...scant majority do feel that their "moral concern has grown more intense in the absence of any assurance of God's existence or of an after-life." However, the attitude of the atheist-agnostic group toward undertaking the risks of world government was the same as for the undergraduates as a whole--evenly divided almost exactly--except that, out of the 30 people who responded that they were indifferent to the whole issue, ten were agnostics and one an atheist! On one of the most crucial questions of the twentieth century, it appears, the "enlightened skeptic" exceeds his believing brethren...
This week, deeply gratified by the progress of his mission and refreshed by the interlude in Scotland, the President headed back to Washington, with only a scant week remaining before the arrival of Nikita Khrushchev...
...always longed for a knife to free me ... Then what we call the spirit would rise up from the meaningless carcass." Cinemagician Bergman seems to see both men as despairing artists whose creative imaginations doom them to social obloquy and the distrust and disdain of hardheaded authority. What scant optimism there is in this fatalistic philosophy lies in the final triumph of the Magnetic Health Theater: the artist suffers, but art endures...