Word: fuzzier
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Most CUE faculty members perceive the committee as a "forum" where students and faculty interact, but as Henderson points out, that is hard to do when the faculty don't show up. Herrnstein is fuzzier about the purpose of CUE. After a long pause, he ventured that CUE is "a point of contact for whatever reasons...
...line becomes even fuzzier when Bok's theory addresses the question of gifts intended to attract "favorable publicity to improve a donor's image." On the one hand, Bok proudly points out he once turned down a gift from the Papadopoulos regime which seemed designed to gain the goodwill of Greek-Americans. On the other hand, Steiner admitted that Harvard had accepted the Atlantic Richfield Company's offer to build a public affairs forum, even though "I'm sure ARCO hoped (the naming of the Forum) could have some favorable impact on its negative public image." True, ARCO has been...
Despite the new title, Loeb does not consider himself merely a business journalist. "Our section isn't only about dollars and cents," he says. "It's about ideas, individuals, trends. The line between economics and other areas of American life has become much fuzzier. Is affirmative action, for example, a political, social or economic issue? The answer, of course, is that it is all three, and more. Covering these kinds of stories gives us a very eclectic section each week...
...American media also faced new challenges in the Indochina war: the issues were even fuzzier than the battle lines, because the official American position--which war correspondents had always accepted in the past--was built on a series of obviously false assumptions...
...arts, the distinction between the conceptualized and the realized, between the thought and the thing, has been getting fuzzier for some time. Poems about writing poetry are now cliche--indeed since Yeats's "circus animals," his faithful images deserted him, verse has turned in on itself to the point where most poems seem to be written about being unable to compose poetry. Prose, too, introspects to analysis or suggestion modern novelists seem lost in a funhouse of potential trips that stay potential, journalists discuss other journalists' intents in the New Yorker and the 20 most interesting minutes of the Carter...