Word: meres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...words of Kermit the Frog, it's not easy being green; it takes Ben an hour-and-a-half to apply the frog-colored goo that allows him to pass for a sprite. Later, with practice, he hopes to be able to go through the process in a mere hour...
...attitude divestment protesters have tried to dramatize by building an Ivory Tower in Harvard Yard. Harvard is ostensibly dedicated to promoting free and open debate. Yet there are few opportunities for members of the University community to influence decision-making processes and those that exist are treated as mere formalities...
...book, Good to Eat (Simon & Schuster; $17.95). Citing economic, ecological and health considerations as forerunners of religious, folkloric and even social eating customs, Harris writes, "When India's Hindus spurn beef, Jews and Moslems abominate pork, and Americans barely avoid retching at the thought of dog stew . . . something beyond mere digestive physiology is shaping the definition of what's good...
...within the Pentagon, some officials questioned whether the measures backed by the President amounted to anything more than rearranging squares on an organization chart. In a book published this month, America Can Win, Colorado's Democratic Senator Gary Hart, founder of the military reform movement in Congress, insists that mere organizational changes are not enough. Unless the military "culture" is transformed, he insists, the U.S. risks losing its next real war. According to Hart, the military promotion < system rewards "organization men," skillful Pentagon bureaucrats, while passing over "warriors" with a true understanding...
...human body he has no sense at all, and one result is his inability (shown in paintings like His Behind the Back Pass, 1979, two wooden Frisbee players on a lawn) to do a simple figure in movement. His colloquialisms let him down; arms become sticks, hands a mere bunch of squarish twigs, feet relate badly or not at all to the ground, while faces, most of the time, are little more than masks...