Word: cluttering
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...knowledge that, somewhere, over in Boston, in far corners of Cambridge, in the 'academic underground," there were countless esoteric households who were listening to good music, and not over their phones. --each of them sincerly thanking him for never letting the Beetles, Baez, or Beethoven's Fifth clutter his "air," and for remembering to play their favorite Renaissance music
Whether Americans are criticized or praised for their supposed lack of patience, the basic assumption is probably wrong-just another of those monumental cliches about the U.S. character that clutter the intellectual landscape. While Job is not exactly a national hero, there is every evidence that-below the surface-Americans are an exceptionally patient people, and becoming more...
...Miami last week, some NESA members sounded slightly apologetic about such signs blinding America. "The clutter of our cities is real, and signs have something to do with that," said Jackson Brooks of Fort Collins, Colo., NESA's outgoing president. The organization put itself in principle behind the road-beauty bill signed last October by President Johnson and dubbed, because of Mrs. Johnson's neonolithic support of it, "the Lady Bird bill." So business is good. NESA members have already conducted campaigns in Ohio and Washington in which dilapidated old signs were torn down, clearing...
...limited appeal of the game, Pell explained yesterday, is primarily due to the rarity of courts in the U.S. Court tennis originated in French monasteries in the 11th century and was first played in an open courtyard. As a result, the court, now moved indoors, still contains a clutter of galleries, penthouses, doors, and windows all important to the scoring of the game...
...Economics Department plans to allow its concentrators to write their theses in the junior year, thus reducing this clutter of obligations for harassed seniors. Just as importantly, its plan will rescue firmly-decided concentrators who take Ec 1 as freshmen from passing a year in limbo before they enter Ec 98. Students regularly attack sophomore tutorial as pointless, disorganized, or simply useless...