Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...party, possibly entering and winning in 1976, will be a populist party dedicated to the interests of the vast middle class, the productive segment of our society now neglected by Democrats for welfare and minority groups, and by Republicans who favor vested and inherited interests...
...seven-story castle at Osaka, "is full of gold, this one of silver; this other compartment is full of bales of silk and damask, that one with robes, while these rooms contain costly swords and weapons." It sounds like an Oriental Hearst at San Simeon, but the vast ostentation of the Momoyama warlords had a political aim: to dazzle visitors and cow supplicants. In private they practiced a cult of austerity the essence of which lay in the tea ceremony: the rough bowl, the unpainted wooden panel, the natural stone which, in manifesting sabi (simplicity or emptiness), embodied the ideals...
Notable American Women condenses vast amounts of scholarship into three volumes, presenting the complicated questions that feed into women's history in an objective, thoughtful and readable manner. The individual portraits were written by numerous scholars and authors from around the country (one of the best, on the pioneer cultural anthropologist Ruth Benedict, was penned by Donald Fleming, Trumbull Professor of American History, who is not known for his sympathy towards women) and double-checked by scores of graduate students and researchers. The comprehensiveness of the work is borne out by the fact that the editors have been notified...
...vast flow of "White House photographs," selected to show a thoughtful and very human President in firm command of the nation's problems, floods the media. At the same time, access to the man is blocked by the White House Press Office...
...actresses who linger too long in films. In any event, the stage makes different demands, and in the present instance Ullmann is simply not up to them. This is not entirely her fault. Her marvelously expressive face and luminous blue eyes perform exquisite miracles in camera closeups. In the vast spaces of Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater these precious attributes, and their power to move, are lost...