Word: plethora
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long campaign nears the finish line in every state, city and hamlet, TIME correspondents have found a plethora of hot races and intriguing, more or less new faces. Some of the more fascinating in each category...
...sense, art nouveau invented female chic in the popular arts. Not since the 16th century mannerists had there been such a plethora of delicately icy women as now appeared on that new form, the advertising poster. Mucha, a Czech émigré who became Sarah Bernhardt's court artist, and followers like Privat Livemont helped change the sexual prototypes of the 19th century before they launched a million psychedelic posters in the late 20th...
...coincidence, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has recently tightened its regulations and now prohibits the sale of teas made from sassafras if they still contain its essential oil, safrole, a suspected cause of cancer. But not one of the plethora of regulatory agencies in Washington appears to have responsibility for the hundreds of other teas and smokes that are freely peddled in health-food stores and "head shops." The FDA says the teas are not sold as foods and are therefore beyond its jurisdiction. The Federal Trade Commission, unaware of false advertising, does not contemplate any action. Neither does...
...McCormick's reaper enabled farmers to transform the Great Plains into vast seas of grain and feed a growing nation. Canals and railroads made long-distance travel possible, while the telegraph and, later, the telephone made it unnecessary. Mass production-another 19th century American invention-turned out a plethora of consumer goods, from automobiles and radios to fiberglass boats, all of which helped make the U.S. standard of living the highest in the world. Plenty gave the nation the opportunity to look beyond its own rapidly closing frontiers and explore the poles, the moon and now the surface...
POLITICAL PROFILE is probably not the best term to describe Heymann's book. It doesn't really spend much time attempting to explain how or why Pound did what he did. It is more a summary of all of Pound's political acts, spiced with a plethora of anecdotes and meaningless details that have accumulated around the poet's life. This in itself, however, is important, because none of Pound's previous biographers attempted to present the political side of Pound's life. In fact they've remained rather defensive about it, as if the artificial separation of Pound...