Word: weltered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fear, he avers, is "creeping meatballism," i.e., "the adulation of all that is mediocre-the 'nothings' in the world that have become fads." In the day people v. night people conflict, the night people are in danger because the day folk-who "live in an endless welter of train schedules, memo pads and red tape"-are so well regimented...
...goes one of the most popular one-volume musical reference books ever written: The Oxford Companion to Music. On most of its 1,195 pages may be found other samples of wry humor, homely philosophy and unabashed propaganda as well as a welter of personalized information on the facts of musical life. Every word is the penchild of a sprightly 78-year-old scholar and popular educator named Percy A. Scholes (pronounced skoles...
...years of nationhood, the Republic of Italy last week voted in numbers that might shame older democracies. On a leisurely, balmy Sunday, nearly 24 million Italians, 91.1% of the electorate, trooped to the polls to vote for mayors and councilmen in Italy's 7,143 communes. From a welter of confused and overlapping statistics emerged one clear fact: the Christian Democratic party, generally supposed to have been losing ground with the voters, is still the choice of more Italians than any other party, and has actually picked up a few percentage points since...
...contrary, he admitted, self-critically, that his knowledge of the life in a henhouse was far from profound and asked for permission to study the welter of problems on the spot. Within a short space of time the fox put on three kilos...
...main problems perhaps would not be internal so much as external. The University may feel that its reputation as a welter of Communistic thought has created enough turmoil without establishing an overt relationship with Russia. But because of its independence, Harvard is the most logical institution to initiate cultural trade. State universities, for the most part under the control of conservative state legislatures, are certainly in no position to take up the Russian gauntlet. For Harvard, on the other hand, a visiting professorship from Moscow could prove to be quite a coup, not only as an assertion of a rational...