Word: globs
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...growing complexity-and in an era when momentous glob al decisions might have to be made in an instant-a strong presidency is necessary. But not a presidency made strong with the usurped powers of an other branch. As a former Senator and Congressman, it seems strange that Nixon does not fully appreciate this. The shape in which Congress emerges from its crisis, whether regaining its lost luster or continuing to recede, to function as a kind of windy Washington side show, may be determined by what the public demands of it. Ultimately, the nation gets the kind of Congress...
...mental habit of reducing plural words to the singular has been evident before. A case in point is "data," beloved of all social scientists. Data no longer are; they is. "The data is incomplete" or "the data is compelling" turns the concept into a kind of glob-a paste or putty that can be applied to any rickety argument. The origin, quality and meaning of the individual figures are easily forgotten; one data is as good as another data...
Exploration of the moon also provided a good topic for discussion ultimately connected with integration. One Negro boy said, "Aliens probably look like us, but maybe they're a bit bigger, with an extra finger ... maybe just a glob...
...Write what you will about the hippies. They are a repugnant, repulsive, nauseating, filthy, immoral, and utterly useless glob of humanity serving absolutely no purpose...
...sense of humor, a sense of freedom, a suspicion that anything can happen-perhaps even passion. In this welter of the current art world, it is still possible to say, or sense, that some things are good, some bad. There is the almost haunting fact that one metal glob or set of blinking lights will somehow tug at the imagination, while another will not. That Savarin coffee can full of paint brushes, which is in the Museum of Modern Art at the moment, is a visual bore. But Rauschenberg's goat with a tire around it is somehow amusing...