Word: thees
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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THEATER Of Thee I Sing, in revival, mocks today's follies...
TITLE: OF THEE I SING...
...most abused American minority group, bear the marks of Americanization. Martin Luther King Jr. may have written about the influence on him of the teachings of Gandhi, but when he spoke, the texts he cited were the King James Bible, the Declaration of Independence and My Country, 'Tis of Thee. Minorities assimilated, because assimilation allowed them to get ahead here, and because here seemed better than any available alternative -- especially their homelands...
...wreath or death!" In fact, the Greek word for contest, agon, has become rather painful in English. But the rewards of victory were enormous: places of honor, money, sinecures and the admiration of nonathletes -- a word in Greek, idiotai, that has also survived in one form in English. Get thee to a gymnasium quickly...
...words of our Alma Mater: "Radcliffe, nowwe rise to greet thee."Photo courtesy of the Radcliffe CollegeArchivesBig band music and floor-length formaldresses at an All-College Dance in the 1940s...