Word: amalgamation
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Many students who live off-campus have tried and decided against the residential system, saying they felt restricted by the constant amalgam of their academic and personal lives...
...wild evaluation of the '90s, Tooth Imprints on a Corndog meanders along thematic paths through the discontinuous and often confounding amalgam that is contemporary culture. It successfully unites them under a splendidly crafted satirical umbrella, one that would fit perfectly on a beach this week. Photo Courtesy of Harmony Books and Mark Leyner
...surprisingly, Vowl must simply vanish from this book. His pals, who miss and worry about him, mass at a provincial mansion to try and find out what is afoot. This ragtag cabal scans shards of Vowl's writings, an amalgam of mumbo-jumbo, looking for hints. Will chaos or stark fatality confront all participants of this odd squad of misfits, drawn inward in companionship to look for a missing Vowl...
...meant little to him, and the summit of his clerical ambition was reached when he became Cardinal-Archbishop of Cracow. As Pope, he is a Pole, as Roncalli was an Italian. But both men, as instinctive regionalists, have repudiated modern nationalism and have tended to see Europe as an amalgam of historic regions -- a microcosm of a world of peoples rather than of nations. A regionalist finds it much easier to develop true internationalism than a nationalist, and this is one reason why both men were at ease as head of a global organization, speaking urbi et orbi...
...remarkable gains, a sense of precariousness haunts the new black middle class and the art it creates and takes to heart. The economic advancement remains newfound and insecure. Hence the new black art displays a peculiar love-hate relation to the defiant culture of the inner city: an anxious amalgam of intimacy and enmity. Beneath it all is the black bourgeoisie's deep-seated fear that they're only a couple of paychecks away from the fate of the underclass...