Word: whilst
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that Rene Magritte and Jean Scutenaire decried for lending art the characteristics of a superior activity, despite its removal from the real-life concerns and activity of most people. They criticized bourgeois individualism in art because "the middle-class artis claimsto express elevated sentiments relevant only to himself," whilst most men make something. One does not get any sense of this security in superiority from Miro's paintings or his graphics...
...speech. He said: "I'm the youngest person here. I've just come from sea to tell you that very few of you, if any, know what my generation is thinking." He went on to deliver an address that was modern-minded and tolerant in its approach, whilst at the same time advocating the retention of the best of the old. Sir Charles Norris, one of the most senior admirals present, leaned over to another veteran sailor and remarked: "What a good piece of luck to have that young man as our next King." The second admiral retorted...
...Middlesex, England, hospital. The death certificate satisfied the requirements of science: "myocardial degeneration of the heart muscles due to starvation and pulmonary tuberculosis." The needs of the law were fulfilled at the official inquiry: "The deceased did kill and slay herself by refusing to eat whilst the balance of her mind was disturbed." Neither statement could satisfy those who knew Simone Weil as a philosopher, teacher, factory worker, soldier, writer and friend. Her mind was not a scale to be tipped between sanity and insanity but a fixed crystal that gathered every crucial political and spiritual crisis of her time...
...campaign troopers to Washington, D.C., for the Inauguration. Furthermore, I am told that all citizens of our vastly enlarged Nation are being urged to "feel that they are welcome in Washington" during the swearing-in celebrations. That, Sir, is Jacksonian Democracy with a vengeance! And whilst I endorse the Sentiment, I cannot easily imagine how even our august Capital could bear the arrival of 220 million noble and hungry souls. It is true that I issued a similar Invitation to all the People back in 1829 (and I am honored that you and your Adjutants should choose to emulate...
Then pardon-me-whilst-Ah-whup-this-out Tim clickety-clacked the first two lines. In the ol' kontry tradition...