Word: mires
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...runoff ditch, fed by the drains from the campgrounds. Left alone it is a glorified mud puddle, finely churned by the hundreds of motorcycles that scramble back and forth. In the middle a naked man is rolling about in the mire. The deeper he sinks, the greater the crowd's pleasure. A few thousand people now mill about this shallow, bowl-like dip of land, waiting for another victim, throwing empty cans of beer at each other. For the present they must content themselves with stoning the engine of an already charred hulk. Here there is no real audience...
...more optimistic, but not much more helpful. Secretary of State Kissinger's proposals exemplify the air of unreality breathed in such conferences of concerned crisis-managers. He wants to improve the structure of grain and capital lending flows that have in the past, and will increasingly in the future, mire the Third World in indebtedness to Western institutions and governments; to improve health conditions through more elite-organized research on the quality of food nutrition, when such research in the past has itself demonstrated that the benefits of food-supplement efforts are illusory, or at best peripheral to conditions...
...democratic dissent in Chile. Washington has been notably restrained in its passion for democratic dissent in South Korea and South Viet Nam, not to mention the present police state in Chile. By covering up the unconscionable with the implausible, Messrs. Ford and Kissinger have again pulled us toward the mire of political mendacity. The large question is whether the U.S. can be both an imperial power and a democracy. Imperial-minded men are afflicted with a lust for secrecy that feeds their overweening pride in power. If the CIA sticks to intelligence gathering and gives up its covert operations, both...
...Carnal Knowledge was permissible softcore porn, they are still split on the basic strategy for dealing with obscenity. Justice William Brennan, who feels that Government would do better to abandon the field altogether, filed a brief opinion gloomily noting that the court had once again fallen back into "the mire of case-by-case determinations of obscenity." Brennan's I-told-you-so was aimed mainly at Chief Justice Warren Burger, who wrote the previous porn opinions that encouraged local courts and prosecutors to take off after whatever books, movies and plays seemed offensive when judged by "contemporary community...
Where does all this leave us? Pretty much in the middle of the mire of complaints, investigations and red tape that it appears. The University has met its requirements for the time being and can receive its money in peace until its hiring proposal comes up for review two years from...