Word: cluttering
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...Beyond all the sacred clutter, the holy thing itself must exist," he cries. "That I believe, of that I am certain." But he still defies the being he calls god with a contemptuous small g. God, says Ahasuerus, separates man from the divine, from the sacred spring. "To god I do not kneel-no, and I never will. But I would gladly lie down at the spring to drink from it-to quench my thirst, my burning thirst for what I cannot conceive of, but which I know exists. And perhaps that is what I'm doing...
...cast herself in the unlikely role of occasional legal adviser and researcher for Truman Capote, a longtime friend from Scouting days in Monroeville, Ala. After accompanying the aging (37) boy author on a fact-finding and mood-gathering trip to Garden City, Kans.-the scene of the Clutter murder case (TIME, Nov. 30, 1959), on which Capote's next book will be based-Miss Lee packed her childhood pal back off to his Swiss writing retreat, having certified his first 200 longhand pages as "magnificent...
David Berman's rather bulky portfolio of verse represents no appreciable growth in technique or feeling over his last published collection. Verbal pretension and technical sloppiness clutter passage after passage. Berman's poetry has the appearance of craftsmanship, but the shimmer of alliteration and assonance disguises a formless ooze of lush words...
...soon as the colony is reasonably snug, the ten colonists (or those who survive) will start a project that will doubtless be close to their hearts: getting back to earth. In the clutter of equipment on their dusty lunar plain, they will find enough rocket engines, heat shields, navigation instruments and other parts to assemble five return vehicles, each of which can blast two men off the moon, return them to the earth and land them on its surface in, hopefully, good condition...
Driving from village to village through the Punjab countryside, Shriver was struck by the fact that Indian farmers huddle together in villages rather than living in houses on their own land; again, it was explained that tillable land is too precious in India to clutter up with buildings. As he made his rounds of the villages, Peace Corpsman Shriver seemed suspicious that things might have been fancied up in preparation for his arrival; he tested with his forefinger the whitewash on walls to make certain it was not still damp, turned to escorting Indian officials for assurance that there...