Word: bunked
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...poet in a larger social context--to view poetry as a profession (or, perhaps more to the point, to analyze what it means that ours is a culture where it's all but impossible to be a professional poet). Ezra Pound once pointed out that history without economics is bunk. To which one might add that poetry without economics--without some sense of the ebb and flow of the megamercantile society surrounding the poet--is bunk too. Behind Moyers' many questions lurks one that goes unasked: Are we "celebrating" so hard because otherwise someone might point out that the party...
...first time, the College was forced to install bunk beds in the River Houses in order to accommodate the military personnel...
L.D.I.'s emergence has many abortion-rights supporters worried-and outraged. Bush says the emotional and financial toll of fighting malpractice suits will probably shut down some abortion clinics, but many will dig in and fight. "It's absolutely bunk that they care about women," says Bush about Crutcher and his organization. "Everything I have seen from Life Dynamics is very specifically focused on driving the abortionists out of business." But Crutcher argues he's keeping women safe and keeping abortionists honest. Of course, what troubles abortion-rights advocates is that L.D.I.'s ultimate goal isn't better abortion services...
...athletic administrators and several council members have indicated, Coffey deserves no credit for the ticket offering. Indeed, his claims of a "real big victory for the U.C."--in addition to their questionable grammatical structure--appear to be just plain bunk...
...word, the theory is bunk. Even the BSA's leaders at the time, while stopping well short of denouncing Jeffries' views, refrained from endorsing them. As then-BSA President Art A. Hall '93 put it, "We endorse his Blackness, as a Black individual and a Black intellectual, but as far as his viewpoints, that's another issue...