Word: injection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with the man who occupies it than with the ideas that compete for its attention. Still, Watergate has weakened the presidency somewhat. And that may be part of a longer process. None of the past five Presidents have completed two full terms. That is disquieting. Assassinations and forced retirements inject an odd sense of foreboding into presidential politics. There is the ghost of a thought that Americans are growing so impatient and unleadable that they insist on ritually disposing of the President every four years or less. The pat tern need not be inevitable, but in moments of depression, Americans...
...self-imposed ordeal and rejuvenated by the obvious stir he was creating. Said one member of the Pope's entourage: "He is a good dash man but not a miler. He gets awfully tired after a sprint. But the crowd scenes and the youth meetings seem to inject adrenaline into his veins." Concluded Glasgow Catholic Archbishop Thomas Winning: "This was his hardest mission. The British are a phlegmatic people, yet he captured them completely...
Natasha Pearly '82 believes in fate. It was her destiny, she says, to inject democratic principle into Harvard's humdrum bureaucracy, even though powerful deans objected to the pain in their backsides. She couldn't help it. It had to be done...
WHICH IS NOT TO SAY the prose poems lack structure. The adjectives are often extravagant--"hilarious and hellish little boys," he writes in "Old Bud"--but they serve to inject the poet's perspective into what is initially a third-person description. And while some of Wright's speech-like rhetorical devices might water down a poem, they add vigor to the paragraph forms. The packing together of lyrical sounds--as well as the repetition of words--creates a strong sense of unity in poems like "In Gallipoli...
...primitive tribes may try to repeat their primordial events and look for escape into sacred time. It is a dangerous passage. Hitler's 1,000-year Reich, the tribe of fur-clad Übermenschen with Aryan fire in their eyes, lasted for twelve years. Hitler meant to inject his vulgar sacred time into profane time, but the sacred can never intrude for more than an instant. Any longer, and the results are monstrous...