Word: ersatz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dark-red massiveness of Sever Hall stakes out a solid claim on the land beneath, in contrast to the make-shift wooden pillars and ersatz Old-North-Church steeple of Mem Church next door and the Pusey library burrowing underground. The steps of Horace Trumbauer's Widener dominate the quandrangle, but Sever holds its space without demanding reverence. Widener, it is assumed, will last forever--it appeals to the scholar's upward gaze beyond forever, while Sever controls its ground right...
...Middle East today. The Soviet leader com plained that the "situation is still fraught with danger . . . The danger is that while there is some degree of tension the aggressor [Israel] and its patrons;[the U.S.] may try again to avoid a radical solution. It is not accidental that 'ersatz' settlement plans were recently launched. This means replacing overall settlements with partial agreements...
...whole town waits for death--the individual or collective crisis that might give them a sense of direction, something to fight against--and when death comes it comes as an anticlimax. The "leaf storm," the invasion of the banana company with its false prosperity and erratic electricity and ersatz shelters for its army of migrant workers, passes over the town but disdains to destroy it. The Buendias fail to ignite the town as they burn themselves...
Kempton's laconic and somewhat one-eyed observation focuses on a writing style oriented towards "authenticity." No doubt the journalists of the period and the "documentary movement" as a whole swelled the ranks of ersatz "roughs" in Kempton's recollection. If he ignored its virtues, Kempton still managed to define in shorthand the characteristic shortcoming of an abundant and protean genre. The typical documentary article or book was rich with feeling and immediacy but usually short-changed thought and discounted analysis...
...more of the state's 17 tracks (there are only 23 others in the rest of the U.S.). Despite the dearth of glamour and the shortage of champions that stand out from the pack, huge numbers of gamblers want to wager on the greyhounds that futilely chase an ersatz rabbit around an oval of either five-sixteenths or three-eighths of a mile...