Word: lumping
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...point is that you can't lump an entire minority group together and give them preferential treatment...
...first the injury claim filed with the Ohio Bureau of Workmen's Compensation by Irving Zilbert seemed routine. Zilbert had injured his neck and back while working on a Cleveland home-remodeling job. The bureau found him 50% disabled, and awarded him the lump sum of $5,600. Next case...
...like you just couldn't walk into a coffee house in the Village or even Roseland Dance City any more, listen to Sly (Dance to the Music) or like the Byrds (Hey Mr. Tangerine Man) and not walk out without some sort of ideology or a big fat lump in your throat. Bo Diddley was passe; Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper were, respectively, dead; Cream was strictly for Anglophiles; you were growing up--bye, bye Ms. American pie--you needed consciousness, man, Albert Shanker had taken over the nation's schools; now his half-brother Ravi was sitaring...
...course, Bowie was always more than merely jarring. To lump him with Alice Cooper, as many do, is a mistake. Despite Cooper's first name and penchant for mascara, his songs were as straight as the midwestern plains from which he came. Cooper's charm, nurtured by Zappa's aesthetic of ugliness, lies elsewhere, perhaps in the psychic territory of a sixth grader...
...that Constantine A. Trypanis, the Greek Minister of Civilization and Culture, spent two days in Cambridge last July to clinch an agreement on the chair between Harvard and the Greek government. Trypanis left a check for $1 million to endow the George Seferis Professorship in Modern Greek Studies. A lump sum of $2 million will make the entire program feasible by providing for an assistant professorship, two graduate student fellowships and library funds...