Word: miasma
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...room Moscow flat, is finally destroyed by it. In the process of that destruction, Pasternak tells the story of Russia in the 20th century--of the parasites who feed on emergent ideologies, of men serving and struggling against systems and faiths they cannot grasp, of the miasma of bureaucracy, land reform, nobility, and military that was Russia after October...
...active factor in French government, has laid the groundwork for a fruitful new relationship between France and her onetime African colonies, and has immensely strengthened France's moral and psychological position in revolt-torn Algeria. Above all, he has given Frenchmen back their pride, swept away the miasma of self-contempt that has hung over France since its ignominious capitulation to Hitler...
...Even great heroes become "bloodless, namby-pamby, without vitality, pluck or distinguished ideas." The words "love, loyalty, honesty" rarely appear because the experts regard them as too abstract. "Sin is out . . . but (and quite logically) so is virtue. The children depicted in modern readers live in an uncharted ethical miasma of being 'happy,' engaging in do-it-yourself pursuits . . . with nice fathers and mothers in the background, who display no virtues beyond being kind and indulgent to their little ones...
...reason to know the truth about Stalin's reign were nevertheless startled by Khrushchev's brutally direct account of such monstrous crimes as the deportation of millions of people from their homelands, the futile and meaningless killing of thousands of party intellectuals, and the hideous miasma of murder and mayhem around the Kremlin. So harrowing was Khrushchev's tale that the U.S. State Department (which had got the text from an undivulged source) debated on the value of releasing it, thinking that many readers might be moved to accept Khrushchev's picture of himself and other...
With only four days of outdoor practice behind them, members of the varsity baseball team will emerge from the miasma of Briggs Cage tomorrow to head south for a three-game exhibition schedule next week...