Word: floundering
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...critical articles, both ambitions in intent, flounder on the problem of epistemology in modern literature. Any estimate of Roger Shattuck's Retreat and Return must be to some extent unfair, for it is only a brief extract from his forthcoming book. However his broad classifications seem to bury many ramifications and nuances in the authors he discusses. That the literature of his period is "self-reflexive" is sufficiently explicit in the sources themselves. But a definition of the myriad meanings of this term would seem to be the critic's task, as well as a search for underlying motivations...
...hundred people, and one of them doesn't like me, I'll know it, and I have to get out of there." This is possibly a somewhat morbid and perhaps flamboyant exaggeration of his condition, but his friends say that he often does seem to flounder in a sea of impressions. It is to resist them, they say, that he puts up his arbitrary, antisocial front...
Eisenhower, who has until July 27 to make a decision, last week gave a clue to his intentions. He overruled a Tariff Commission recommendation that he raise the tariff and set quotas on groundfish fillets (cod, flounder, etc.), now being used in the fast-growing new product, fish sticks (TIME, May 17). Said Eisenhower: higher tariffs and quotas "would hamper and limit the development of the market." But if Ike overrules the commission on watches, the Administration may decide to give the watchmakers more defense orders to make up for their lost watch business...
...nevertheless act and flounder...
...U.S.S. Missouri, on wheels, will feature the annual parade scheduled to start from the CRIMSON at 2 p.m., winding thence to Radcliffe, and to Soldiers Field for athletic events. An elephant, three fire engines, stagecoaches, a Sherman tank, nine rickshaws, and a forty-foot effigy of John H. Updike, "Flounder of his country," will also participate...