Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cracks Pike, is the word for "a committee God." Too many Christian doctrines are "excess luggage." As though reducing Christ to the level of the teenybopper, Pike describes Jesus as "the most...
Civilized man, said Dr. Schroeder, ingests an excess of cadmium from tea and coffee, refined flour and polished rice, some phosphate-fertilized crops- and water pipes. Soft water, he declared, takes up cadmium, a contaminant in copper and galvanized pipes, far more readily than does hard water...
...mass of his work. Ferguson combines a plastic imagination with an infallible ear; these poems show him condensed into a dense, luminous symbolic vocabulary -- a set of difficult hieroglyphs. After all, it takes more than devotion to know that "an ivory place, where needles thick as mirrors drank to excess" represents a hospital, or that "a foot with a thousand hands" is a pine-tree. His choice of quiet, basically formal structures for his poems should not cloud his insurrectionary style...
...West in half just as surely as the Iron Curtain divides it from the East. This, the author contends, permits Americans to go their merry, uncomprehending way while the rest of the world lives in ignorance of what the U.S. is really like. Americans, she says, suffer from an excess of earnestness, are deplorably fundamentalistic in religion, too insular, too prone to look for Reds under beds, and are basically anti-intellectual. Furthermore, Goldwaterism was an abomination that still lurks under the surface of U.S. life (along with frightening currents of emotional and physical violence), the educational system...
HITCHCOCK: I have achieved a long-felt desire on my part about the use of color. As you know, many of the films you see are not color films; they're colored films. There's an excess of color, and they're brilliantly lit, and they have on what they call a Hollywood gloss. In other words, there's a lack of reality about them...