Word: plethora
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ideas of repeated planetary collisions and of the involvement of a comet in the stopping of the earth's rotation (along with the falling of manna from Heaven). He concludes, "To rescue the hypothesis requires special pleading, the vague invention of new physics, and selective inattention to a plethora of conflicting evidence...
While Schary might have put more thought and imagination into the script, one might question whether Roosevelt's life and personality are best adapted to the solo format. The theater has hosted a plethora of such fare in the past decade and the most successful examples of the genre are usually those plays which focus on more introverted types than FDR. An Emily Dickinson who seldom leaves the confines of her New England home, or a Mark Twain who addresses most of his scathing satire to an anonymous audience, are far less confined by the formidable constraints of the genre...
...enveloped his reclusive existence are finally being peeled away. And the disclosures are adding zing to the already roughhouse brawl over Hughes' financial empire, which was valued at $2.3 billion in the late 1960s. It is being racked by internal strife, buffeted by lawsuits and threatened by a plethora of alleged Hughes wills...
...this year. The conventioneers were shown everything from daily birth control pills for fecund bitches and orthopedic braces for dachshunds (whose elongated proportions make them prone to backaches) to monster gas-filled balloons that can deliver anesthetics during surgery on horses. Still, the greatest interest was stirred by the plethora of scientific papers underscoring a little-known facet of the pet craze: for all their infatuation with the animal kingdom, Americans all too often mistreat their pets-frequently out of misguided kindness...
...Radcliffe is likely to prove difficult reading for women who actually go here, if they get through Baker's rather academic style and the unwieldy plethora of facts about all the other colleges. She forces you to confront the fact that you came to Cambridge because of Harvard's great tradition of learning, but that, at the same time, that very traditional outlook has kept Harvard from responding to women's educational needs, with Radcliffe's administration just about powerless to fight for its students. Her statistics are not quite up to date--her research apparently ended...