Word: erraticism
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But the behavior of the Election Commission has been erratic at best and outrageous at worst. Students attempting to register have been confronted with a whole series of arbitrary requirements. The success of an individual's attempt to register depends upon a grab bag of variables--the time of day...
In 1891, after Boulanger shot himself over his mistress's fresh grave, his former political patron, Georges Clemenceau, produced a suitably cruel epitaph. "Boulanger," sneered the Tiger, "died, as he had lived, like a subaltern." Now, in the first complete biography of Boulanger, English Historian and Musicologist James Harding...
Such a tax would, by its nature, be an economist's ideal: it would affect only those who can afford it. It might fractionally tone down today's price levels, and no doubt would be strenuously opposed by some art dealers and collectors. It would not solve all...
More important, Harvard won with the consistency of a professional squad rather than the explosiveness that abounds in college baseball. There were no 11-10 slugfests, no double headers that saw erratic 7-2, 2-7 splits. Except for a three-game slump in the middle of the season, Harvard...
I know the film's admirers will attack this description on the grounds that Memories gives an accurate picture of bourgeois consciousness. Accrete, yes, but incomplete. And the ways in which it is incomplete are the ways that would most help us to understand the causes of that consciousness and...