Word: fluids
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Like any earthly matter, the Constitution has three forms: the solid text of the framers, the more fluid interpretation of the courts and a sort of glowing gas perceived by the public. That last Constitution, misquoted, rhapsodized over and construed to endorse the passions of the moment, is the subject of this imaginative book by a Pulitzer-prizewinning Cornell University historian, Michael Kammen. Kammen rummages through two centuries of sources, including news clippings, speeches, textbooks and public opinion polls, to gauge how Americans have regarded their own charter of government...
...United States today is a fluid and dynamic society--buffeted by the forces of technological change on one side, and traditional institutions on the other, observers say. "I think the most fundamental point is that the accepted and recognized, if not always approved standards, of conditions is becoming more fluid and ambiguous," says Geoffrey Hazard, a Yale law professor who specializes in legal ethics...
Unfortunately, though, two often fluid laws of American social relations are axiomatic at Harvard College. First, it is impossible to feel good about being Black all or most of the time. Second, it is impossible to avoid thinking about being Black for more than two days at a time except sometimes during Reading Period. (Occasionally I hear from a Black student the following: "I don't think about being Black" or "Being Black is not an issue in my life." These statements, which immediately brand the speaker as either a liar or victim of autism, can be isolated...
...highways of Jayne Anne Phillips' fiction. Castoffs from the counterculture, sleeping on floors or living in cars, unsure of where they stand in time or space, few of them know how to keep jobs, let alone take care of themselves. Phillips' characters lack purpose and authority. Their world is fluid, but they do not quite go under. They simply float...
With the exception of a temporary quarterly system to accommodate a fluid student body during World II, the University's only change in the last half-century has been, starting 10 years ago, to begin the academic year one week earlier to help students procure summer jobs...