Word: blur
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Aaron, the whole summer was a blur, which ironically began rather quietly...
...party, stood Walter Mondale. The Out party must always cope with the new surges and forces of this restless country, unrestrained by the discipline of a sitting President. But in 1984 so many new surges were pressing up from underneath that the orthodox political issues were to blur in the interminable Democratic primaries. Mondale, a man of conscience but also a master political mechanic, had tried to swallow them all, to bring a coherence to the multitude...
...main reasons for the confusion in manners, Martin believes, is the blurring of the line between public life and private life. In public life there are hierarchies of money, power and talent because that is the practical way to get things done. In private life, everyone can be equal. To blur the distinctions causes pain. To let money govern private relations is immoral. And to the child's traditional question "Why?", Miss Manners proposes the traditional answer "Because...
...Life in some sort of mix of intensive reading and travel. The more Murray talks of reading and contemplation, though, the more it seems the film tries to yank our contact lenses of understanding out of out eyes, making the search for meaning little more than a vague blur. "Do you read all these books," asks a miner, pointing to a filled shelf. "I skim them," Time and again the books stay blurred; the brown blur could be a first edition Kant, the redder blur could be Bible, but they could just as well be part of the Reader...
...Fifth Avenue on Labor Day morning, a brass band walked near by, playing Sousa marches. At the Democratic Convention in July, the San Francisco Girls and Boys Chorus sang America the Beautiful, This Land Is Your Land, while the delegate horde turned the convention floor into a blur of red, white and blue. Convention Guest Mark Green, co-author of There He Goes Again: Ronald Reagan's Reign of Error, confessed to an awkward moment: "At first I didn't want to wave a flag. But on the last night of the convention I was waving...