Word: slighted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...resources of a 20-year-old, living in the world of the half married, half widowed, were slight supports. She tried going back to her bank teller's job but had to quit; living in San Diego, a naval town where every uniform made her edgy, was too much. Finally, she achieved a bearable tension at her parents' Southern California home. Talks with her father, a retired Air Force colonel, and a friend who had been a World War II P.O.W., at least reduced the unknown terrors...
Essential to Borges' vision is a conviction of oneness. To Borges, every human act, however slight, affects all other events. It is a world of perfect complicity. Little wonder that youthful readers in search of community find Borges a kindred spirit. Yet his work suggests that community is reached not by simply linking arms or sharing pot but through sacrifice...
Gordon frequently walks from his home in the upper East Eighties to Wall Street offices of Kidder, Peabody, Inc., at the foot of Manhattan, a walk that could kill most middle-aged executives. His son. John Gordon '71, starting halfback on the soccer team, gives him a slight head-start in a three-and-a-half mile race and has trouble beating...
...with his performance of the clarinet part in Piston's Second Symphony with the BSO earlier this year. In the Mozart A Major Clarinet Concerto, K. 622, last Sunday night, he demonstrated his exceptional talent quite well. There were a few problems with the performance, however. Wright had some slight mechanical problem with his instrument from the second movement on, which forced him to reduce the dynamic level of the performance somewhat. The notes from G through B' emerged sounding a bit strained. Schneider, who has a tendency to rush into the beginning of a movement, and then gradually slow...
Perfectly Taurus. Schmidt's theory turns upon the fact that in the 2,000 years since the old astrological rules were set up, there has been a slight change in the tilt of the earth's axis. This has caused an apparent shift in the positions of the constellations. In addition, he notes that astrologers have refused to recognize that there are actually 14 constellations in the Zodiac belt...