Word: shattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fundamental change in the direction of our government has always awaited the emergence of urgent and compelling new problems powerful enough to shatter the old majority-minority alignment. Around these new questions has emerged a new consensus, a brilliant new leadership, and a new semipermanent division of the voters into majority and minority groups. This new alignment is substantially altered from the one which preceded it, not only in its ideological reaction to the new challenge but also in its geographic and economic characteristics. The new devision is invariably reflected in a shift in the nature, composition, or role...
...change from one of these cycles to another, he said, "has always awaited the emergence of urgent and compelling new problems powerful enough to shatter the old majority-minority alignment...
Physically Lowell is the most beautiful House on campus. Its large and small courtyards are dominated by a massive belltower harboring the major threat to Sunday quiet along the river front. But even when the large Russian bells shatter the air at 12:30 p.m. few residents are disturbed. They merely flock to the dining hall and create the longest line of the week...
Prometheus Bound. Proud of race and place, Captain Michales is a Prometheus bound who prays to God but worships his native Crete. His unsmiling face is a sword set against the Turk. He can spread two fingers in a wine glass and shatter it; his words are blunt, plain and few. He goes on broody, Homeric, eight-day binges, but "wine could never-bring him down." It is clear, as his horse's hoofs strike sparks from the streets, that he is riding for a more classic fall-the fall caused by hubris, the overweening pride of the Greek...
...right to strike seems less important than the right to work." At any rate, we wish Mr. Prochnow luck in his new job at the State Department, and we hope he thinks up many more ways "to point out the foibles of men, to goad them into action, to shatter their pride, and to awaken humor." STEPHEN R. BARNRTT