Word: morass
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...trial, which finally began last May and lasted 2 1/2 months, brought a parade of more than 40 witnesses, whose testimony amounted to a morass of contradictions. Supercaster Howard Cosell, for example, testified that ABC Executive Roone Arledge had confided to him that N.F.L. Commissioner Pete Rozelle was "all over me" to drop U.S.F.L. coverage. But Arledge countered under oath that he had said no such thing. Trump testified that Rozelle had promised him a franchise if he agreed not to sue. But Rozelle testified that Trump had begged him for a franchise, promising to "find some stiff...
...Governor, Cuomo is, in a way, handicapped by his own eloquence; his vaulting rhetoric creates equally lofty expectations. In reality, he is something of an incrementalist, creating a pattern of change in small ways. "Stone by stone, we cross the morass," he likes to say, quoting Justice Learned Hand...
...morass of statistics provides a sound basis for objective discussion of Harvard's evolution as a world-renowned institution, but numbers alone do not make particularly enthralling reading. The authors seem to have forgotten that they do not have a captive audience in a lecture hall. Their writing is unoriginal, occasionally sloppy, and often repetitive. Facts overlap; the same figures reappear in separate essays, with the same glib descriptions: President John T. Kirkland is always "charming," President Charles W. Eliot is "the right sort," George Santayana is eccentric. All of the characters are flat. The authors, some of whom...
...actions of those protesters who sought to impose their personal views on the entire Harvard community by interfering with the presentation of Jorge Rosales of the Nicaraguan FDN (Contras), calling them "totalitarian," and rightfully so. Unfortunately this one creditable statement was in danger of being lost in a morass of obfuscation and extraneous debate. Most of the article deals with a rather torturous examination of whether the Contras as "murderers" ("which [Mr. Katz] tend[s] to agree is the case") should be allowed to speak. The very title of the piece, "Not So Simple" is indicative of the confused nature...
...were hard to sort out. Power, yes, and the will to use it, yes. But to what end? And with what effect? Will briefly disabling Gaddafi's radar mean less terrorism or more? Will aiding Honduras serve to keep Nicaragua at bay or drag U.S. troops into a thickening morass...