Word: solemnities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Poets: uselessly solemn, infatuated, or odious, monsters, specialists, tormentors, and martyrs of the adjective whose dilettantism, lucidity and intellectual sensibility I had vastly overestimated...
...cries out for greatness in the White House. The trouble is not only that so many talented Americans shun politics, but also that no sort of accomplishment in other fields necessarily qualifies a man for the extraordinary demands of the presidency. Solemn reformers will doubtless one day propose a special Presidential Academy with a faculty of hundreds. Enrollment would be for a decade, the curriculum immense and open-ended. With his power over nuclear war or peace, the American President can do no less than strive to be the world's most rational man; a philosophy degree might help...
...turned to watch with solemn faces...
Confined to their bases to mourn their fallen comrades, Egyptian army units, re-equipped with Soviet armor and vehicles, swore a solemn oath "by great Allah" to liberate Arab lands occupied by Israel. MIG 21s wheeled over Cairo in tight combat formation...
...think of only one time when Jarvis almost lost a volley. A solemn, bespectacled fellow stood up and asked, "How about the cones and rods that discharge electricity behind one's closed eyelids when there is a light source above one? Will it disappear as meditation goes on? In other words, is there any relation between meditation and the phenomena known as astral projection...