Word: blur
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rickety wooden stairways lead to doors that go nowhere, curves around the apex of Harvard Square at Mass Ave and Boylston Street. It's three stories high, and the bottom story holds stores and restaurants--Elkins, Varsity Liquor, the Tasty, the Grist Mill, the Wursthaus, all in a blur. The top floors--this is a story about them--are white and austere from the outside, bits and pieces, actually, of three small tacked-toegether buildings. A big sign that says J. HENRY QUINN REAL ESTATE stretches across the space between the second and third stories...
Courage is the greater part of leadership. But trying to define it in these complicated times is the biggest problem. It is a delicate equation, balancing instinct, intelligence, action and restraint. When the odds rise high enough against unlimited public exposure, then courage can blur into stubbornness and maybe even folly...
...This is not exactly Rockefeller country," Alabama Governor George Wallace wryly observed on the eve of the Vice President's trip to the South. But last week, in a mere two days of back pounding, arm squeezing and conservative oratory, Nelson Rockefeller managed further to blur his past image as a big-spending liberal and convince many amazed Southerners that he is really one of their own. In his two stops at Mobile, Ala., and Columbia, S.C., he did not eliminate the conservative opposition to his remaining on the ticket in 1976, but he went far toward moderating...
...Television has become so enamored of the game's sales potential that a blur of live and taped tennis saturates the stay-at-home spectator. One weekend afternoon bewildered fans watched Billie Jean King, for instance, play against two different opponents in two different tournaments on two different channels...
Such a system would at best be a mixed blessing in the U.S. It would bar from the Cabinet men of great talent outside the Congress. It would also blur the separation of Executive and Legislative powers set forth in the Constitution, a distinction that is basic to the American system of government. There is no guarantee, either, that giving Cabinet members a political home to retreat to after resignation would alter what appears to be a basic reluctance of Americans in power to resign publicly on an issue of principle...