Word: mire
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...underestimates his audience and is overly concerned with propagandizing. So he loads down his ship with too many people, steers it through a mire o humanitarian cliches, and, glug, it sinks...
...windows and fanned his ears. A thin smile formed around his non-filter cigarette as he banged out on his balky machine the fire-breathing tag to the next day's scathing editorial. Hodding Carter, 30-year-old crusading editor of the Delta Democrat-Times, knee-deep in the mire called Mississippi, clawing at the Magnolia Curtain...
...supposed to be Juan Bosch, who sat out the revolution in Puerto Rico, and is expected to campaign for President in the elections next year. To celebrate his arrival, Bosch supporters are already planning another huge rally. All of which could bring on more fireworks, and a deeper mire for the U.S. and OAS. For now, having kicked out Wessin y Wessin, Lyndon Johnson can hardly be less tough toward the Communists still in the Dominican Republic...
Here also are samplings of the Freshman Register, a mire of errata and out of focus pictures; the HSA Calendar, (a moribund collage of ads for itself, and a rather fair approximation of the "Complete Listings" featuring a good sprinkling of those inevitable Endocrinology Colloquiums); and the Advocate (replete with unintelligible, but vaguely suggestive, woodcuts, some poems of the same order, and a short story entitled "Filth"). As if all this were not enough, the Lampoon once again treats Cambridge to her perennial Merino, still shaggy, still standing there...
...mire of quotations becomes particularly difficult in the second half of the first chapter, "Fantasy and Diagnosis," which traces the early influences on Auden's poetry and should be one of the best sections of the book...