Word: indistinct
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...which truth somehow becomes a process of canonization. Though the popular legends around which these stories revolve range from James Dean to Ezra pound, the author exhibits a unity of purpose to depict a particular state of mind where the boundary between truth and fiction becomes hazy and indistinct. At the heart of these shitting surfaces lies Indiana itself, where these legends are tended and kept alive nameless, faceless acolytes...
Right now it's difficult for an imminent graduate to imagine that this week and the other high-water marks of my four years here will ever be an indistinct memory. But 30 years is a long time. When my father lived in Matthews Hall and Winthrop House, maids--known to everyone as "biddies"--made his bed and cleaned his rooms every day. During the fall of his sophomore year, the College tried an experiment--replacing the maids in Dunster House with student porters. It was not a popular change: Dunster residents complained that the service was deteriorating...
After two months the outlines of the Chernenko era remain indistinct. There was little about last week's meetings of the Communist Party Central Committee and the Supreme Soviet that suggested what direction the new leader intended to take. Chernenko has not openly abandoned the modest economic reforms begun by Andropov, but he has not pursued them with great vigor either. He devoted most of his address to the Central Committee to the topics of school reform and greater popular participation in government...
...line between art and entertainment is often indistinct, and never more so than in musical theater. We tend to think of opera, the sung play, as the pinnacle of a form whose lower manifestations include the Viennese operetta and the Broadway show. But such rigid categorizing is myopic. Like M. Jourdain in Molière's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, who was delighted to discover that he had been speaking prose all his life, even composers with the most commercial motives may turn out to have been writing memorable, lasting scores. Two of the most electrifying operas...