Word: amidst
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Amidst this fashionable glare of paint, Charles Burchfield's Early Winter Twilight seemed somber, unassuming and timeless. Burchfield, 66, who has been ill and little heard from in the past few years, has recently recovered his health and turned out more than 30 watercolors in the last year. Twilight was begun 16 years ago, finished six months ago. It dramatically celebrates the slushy black winter climate of the Buffalo (N.Y.) region where Burchfield lives. "The sky is the leading actor," Burchfield explained. "I was trying to express the threat of winter coming. There is a single light...
...City's United Parents Associations. "What happens in the nation's largest city makes its impact throughout the country. Educational neglect means aggravation of the conditions leading to irresponsibility and lawlessness among our youth, an increasing economic burden for social welfare, the perpetuation of islands of squalor amidst shining centers of commerce and culture. And what is most tragic of all, it means that the potential genius and greatness in some of the youth in New York will go largely undiscovered and undeveloped." The answer, that poor and immigrant New Yorkers have always managed to rise...