Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Above all, rock 'n' roll today is lively, youthful, aggressive, often funny, seldom heartsick. The lyrics, showing the influence of folk music, are fresher and more intelligible. Coming the other way, the folk types are beginning to feel the beat. Drums and electric guitars, long scorned by folkniks as decadent commercialism, are now featured on the latest album by Bob Dylan, folkdom's crown prince...
Actually, Dante's Italian has seldom been spoken or written except by elite men of letters, diplomats, philosophers and scholars. The masses speak various provincial dialects, although the differences have gradually been softened by modern communications. At the same time, new complications have arisen in the borrowing of words from French and English. Thus the longtime guardian ' of Italian lexicography, the Accademia della Crusca in Florence, faces a touchy job of arbitration between pedantry and colloquialism...
...fancy uniforms, scorns the usual fruit-salad decorations, and no one has ever accused him of growing rich on graft. He lives in a modest $12,000 concrete house with his wife and two sons, enjoys cockfighting and baseball. He is painfully shy among strangers, speaks only Spanish, and seldom says much. But he is a devout Catholic in a part of the world where males pay little attention to their religion, and he regards Communism with a bleak, uncompromising hatred. As commander of the military training establishment at San Isidro airbase, he instituted mandatory Sunday Mass for recruits, taught...
...hawks and the doves have been arguing their respective viewpoints on Viet Nam for some time now, but seldom before have they so clearly articulated the points on which they differ. In last week's New Republic Political Scientist Hans J. Morgenthau contends that escalation is dooming the U.S. to an all-out war. In a recent New Leader, Political Scientist Zbigniew Brzezinski maintains that escalation is just what is needed...
Seniors who have written theses take only an oral exam. In theory the hour is evenly divided between testing the student's overall comprehension of social relations and determining his knowledge of his thesis topic. In fact the former purpose is seldom achieved. Honors concentrators receive little or no testing of their understanding of the field as a whole...