Word: mire
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sellars' furious improvisations are sometimes arbitrary and pretentious, and more than a little of the text sinks in the mire of expressionistic excess. But his reworking is so full of passion, inventiveness and sheer theatrical verve that one cannot help cheering. Dumas's tale of Edmond Dantes, a young - seaman in Napoleonic- era France who is unjustly imprisoned for 18 years and then escapes to seek revenge on those who wronged him, could have been a routine exercise in nostalgia or camp. But Sellars obviously sees grandeur in the play and is determined to make the audience...
...absence of any official restraints, professors use reading period to burden students with a relentless barrage of new material. Before students can get down to the actual business of reviewing for final exams, they often must wade through a mire of additional lectures, homework assignments, and even hourly exams. Five years ago, when reading period was last reviewed, a student-faculty committee found that more than half of the 100 most popular courses met during reading period to cover new ground...
Peres may eventually have little choice but to accept the advice once bandied about Washington during the mire of Viet Nam, namely to declare victory and withdraw. When that happens, the Israelis are likely to leave behind an unfortunate legacy of their occupation of southern Lebanon: a population more alienated than ever before from its neighbor to the south...
...harsh economic measures overshadow Mitterrand's other accomplishments. The French ad mire his muscular foreign policy as much as Washington does. In the deluge of reform legislation passed during his first year, Mitterrand abolished the death penalty and raised the minimum wage. In his assault on France's centralized rule, his government has chipped away Paris' stranglehold on the rest of the country...
...Jackson cannot raise himself from the mire, one hopes others will, and have the foresight to understand the reality behind the rhetoric of minority coalition politics. A failure to do so bodes ill for both the Black and Jewish causes...