Word: amidst
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...witnessing with perplexity and dismay the bankruptcy of their ideas, and the disintegration of their handiwork, would do well to turn their gaze to the revelation of Baha'u'llah, and to meditate upon the World Order which, lying enshrined in his teachings, is slowly and imperceptibly rising amidst the welter and chaos of present-day civilization...
...audience takes it all seriously. The children in the theatre gasp when a cat appears amidst a group of mice, but here cat and mouse end up chatting over tea instead of bopping each other in the best of the Mighty Mouse tradition. And I think many kids are puzzled when there is not a battle...
Attica mourned its dead amidst undercurrents of anger and fear. The prison?the community's largest employer?had suddenly become not a source of income but of anguish, the focus of events beyond understanding and beyond control. Now police, reporters from large cities and assorted strangers poked around and asked questions, spreading rumors, raising new fears before the old ones had subsided. "We've been told to expect more trouble," explained Warren Peck, the local barber. "We don't want reprisals taken here," said a man near by. "But if they come in from Buffalo and start trouble, I think...
Attica (pop. 2,900) is in Wyoming County, in the heart of New York's productive farm belt, lush with acres of sweet corn and rolling green hills. Red barns and tall silver silos sit fat amidst fields of goldenrod and purple wild flowers. Along Route 98, small, white clapboard farmhouses ringed with zinnias and neatly clipped lawns are spaced with the regularity of mileposts. Route 98 cuts from north to south and connects the New York State Thru way with Attica about twelve miles to the south...
...Michael Gothard most prominent among them) act like a chorus and look like creatures from a Bosch triptych. Oliver Reed is suitably forceful as Grandier; it is indeed his best performance. Vanessa Redgrave, a consummate actress, is fine as Sister Jeanne, except that she tends to get lost amidst all the sound and fury...