Word: morass
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...central administration needed more office space, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, its subsidiary, sold Mass. Hall. Two years later, in 2008, FAS realized it needed more space for dorms and so rented back part of the structure it once owned—a telling example of the administrative morass that often plagues the University...
...percussion before segueing into a fairly standard dancefloor-filling riff. Perhaps the worst offender is “Hannibal,” which clearly aspires to be a dance track but, for all its echoes of New Order and layered instrumentals, never achieves liftoff, sinking instead into a repetitive morass. None of these tracks are exactly bad, but they all feels slightly aimless, lacking both the propulsive physicality of Caribou’s dance music and the fragile beauty of his spaced-out electronica...
...there's no way to brace for the morass of misanthropy in her new novel So Much for That (Harper; 433 pages), which attacks the American health care system more savagely than any Democrat in Congress has but at no small cost to the reader. The first half overflows with the rantings of a half-dozen furious characters. It's brave, bold and so abrasive that you almost want to give up. You feel as if you're trapped in Michael Moore's head, being lectured on all his pet subjects. I was reading, but still, I almost went deaf...
...famous paintings of the medieval Ming dynasty, which ruled China for about three centuries, is that of a court attendant holding a rope around a giraffe. An inscription on the side says the animal dwelled near "the corners of the western sea, in the stagnant waters of a great morass." According to legend, the giraffe was found in Africa, along with zebras and ostriches, and brought back with the grand 15th century expeditions of Zheng He, China's greatest mariner...
Jeffrey D. Sachs' article should be mandatory reading for all Americans. Brilliantly reasoned, beautifully written and tactfully presented, it is a powerful, balanced argument for regarding the T word--taxes--as one way out of this economic morass, not something to be avoided...