Word: decentering
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Tower (95 Mt. Auburn) and HMV (in Brattle Square) are predictably huge, sleek and impersonal. Each offers a gargantuan selection of rock, classical, jazz and international music at decent prices, with popular albums regularly priced...
...most dislike about the Senate, so that if I ever had doubts, I would have the list to go back to. Now I don't know where the list is. There are things I'll miss. I think most of the people here, on both sides, are honorable, hardworking, decent. I'll miss them, and I'll miss those times when we were able to make a difference...
LIKE MANY STUDENTS, I have been disappointed by the advising network at Harvard. My proctor in Grays West, a decent person who had lived in that entry for 22 years, was an admissions officer. Even in the turmoil of my first term at the College, he had virtually no comment while signing my study card...
...novel of Manhattan's decay. The two books, however, don't really resemble each other beyond their shared setting. Wolfe despises his characters and creates them in order to hold them up to ridicule, wriggling and in pain. McInerney cares deeply about the silly, grasping, ego-swollen pipsqueaks -- fairly decent, fairly normal people -- he invents. Wolfe's cold contempt gives the reader distance, a panoramic view of an ant colony. McInerney shows us human beings who feel wretched as they behave badly...
...problem is that the American economy no longer provides enough decent jobs for low-skilled workers. A full-time minimum-wage job doesn't support a family of four at the poverty line. Even two-parent working families have a hard time making it at the low end of the pay scale...