Word: unaffectedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The people of Rhodes seem unaffected by their historical promimence or the ever-present threat of war. In the city of Rhodes, life continues as it has for centuries: a tradesman prepares his foodstuffs for market, a group of scholars pause to talk on a medieval street.
To be sure, the House and Senate codes will inflict some inequities on members, depending upon their sources of outside income. Lawyers who draw fees and salaries, for example, cannot convert their income to unrestricted stock holdings; Congressmen connected with corporations can. Indeed, the estimated 22 millionaires in the House...
But, of course, Antigona and her truth are not simple. Shorn of finery and barefoot, Cornelia Ravenal as Antigona has a difficult role. She not only enacts a scene but also steps outside the action to comment upon it. Ravenal is at her best when she is being a "witness...
Simone Weil was born in 1909 in Paris, to Dr. Bernard Weil and his wife, Selma. By Petrement's account Simone's were model parents--cultured yet unaffected, proud of their children's successes but not pushy, fun-loving and emotionally honest. Simone and her brother Andre, a precocious methematician...
In her first day in her combined fourth-and fifth-grade class, Amy practiced handwriting, read Paul Reveres Ride and studied the relationship of inches, yards and meters. One of her classmates, Maurice Brown, reported that "she's real smart. That's because she writes real neat." Mrs...