Word: amidst
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LAST SPRING Norman Mailer gave a reading from a work in progress. Afterwards a student asked why, amidst our intolerable political problems, he was writing about moonships and skin-head technicians. Mailer said because they interested him. It was not a popular answer, he had side-stepped a political question with a non-political answer. But the appropriate literary response was not to become a seedier Vonnegut. Questions of the political justifications of art, particularly in a highly politicized time, become the only questions, and writers are left stranded between their literary impulses and political sympathies...
...where the European Coal and Steel Community, the forerunner of the Common Market, established its first headquarters in 1952 under the tutelage of Robert Schuman, France's pioneering Pan-European, and his compatriot Jean Monnet. Since then, the hopes of creating a United States of Europe have faded amidst charges that the Six add up to little more than a self-serving customs union. Enlargement would help to clear away some of the inertia that has set in at Brussels. At the very least, the inclusion of Britain and its three fellow applicants in the Market would make...
...have had to adjust rather fast, for it is not games you have been playing here during these years but rather the real thing. Yet amidst the upsetting alarums and excursions occasioned during your years in college by a determined few who have worked consistently to attract attention to themselves by misrepresenting what we are about, as you have gone ahead with your work, you have made clear one hopeful sign. That is, your generation's vigorous assertion that you will not be satisfied with a learning or a way of life whose most convincing credentials are only that they...
Dean May, rising amidst scattered applause and hisses in what he called one of his "few pleasant duties," awarded the three annual Ames awards, to students, who, in the opinion of the class, had shown the qualities of leadership and resourcefulness...
...release of the study came amidst continued speculation about Sullivan's future in Cambridge. At yesterday's City Council meeting, several councilors attacked him for allegedly neglecting certain administrative matters. The Council will meet for a special session within the next two weeks, at which time Sullivan's tenure in office may come up for discussion...