Word: morass
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...work. In an overly naturalistic tone, ideas tumble out, one after another, unordered, unexplained. Each sentence yields another non sequitur. This style has its merit. He captures perfectly the inarticulateness of human psychology. The helplessness of the characters, the half hearted flailing of the plot, and the unfathomable morass of the prose are expressive and poignant. But they do not make a novel; they do not satisfy the reader...
...Epps asserts his authority as coordinator of the College's race relations policy and takes the center stage, a clearer picture has emerged in recent weeks of the veteran dean presiding over a morass of slow-moving and overlapping committees...
Ethnic Studies seeks neither to rank human experiences in some hierarchy of legitimacy, nor to dissolve rigorous academic pursuits into a morass of relativism. Instead, it proves that nothing in human experience is as simple as it may seem in a first-year survey course. --Timothy "Cage" Hall, '94 Ajitha L. Reddy, '94 Yu Wong...
...President-elect did not need the reminder. Dipping his toe into the Iraqi morass the day of the raid, he stumbled. In an interview with the New York Times, he called the raid "the right thing to do," then seemed to open a small window for Saddam: "If you want a different relationship with me, you could begin by upholding the U.N. requirements to change your behavior. I'm not obsessed with the man." The softer rhetoric set off speculation that he might ease U.S. policy toward Baghdad. Clinton angrily denounced what he called a misinterpretation, and the tenor...
...People, R.E.M.'s follow- up to its 1991 critical and commercial smash, Out of Time. The record gets off to a somber start with Drive, a dirgelike number featuring lyricist and lead singer Michael Stipe, and continues its downward spiral with a string of songs that meander into a morass of hopelessness, anger and loss...