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...early 1900s. Intended as a walkinig guide to the city, the text focuses on individual houses and their inhabitants in Cambridge's early years. Though it is preoccupied with "Old Cambridge," the book still contains many fascinating passages. But be prepared--searching for the iteresting in the morass of architectural detail may prove tedious...
Contrasting the educational achieve ments of the disciplined Soviet classrooms and our own disorderly morass of public school education makes me wonder if Educator John Dewey does not classify as a supertraitor...
Viet Nam's enduring militarism can also serve as a convenient alibi for the country's economic morass. Since reunification in 1975, the rate of inflation in Hanoi has gone up 100%. In Saigon, the annual inflation rate is a staggering 350%; unemployment is 20%. A combination of bad weather and bureaucratic bungling has left Viet Nam with a succession of crop failures and a 2 million-ton annual shortfall of food. Compared with 1976, last year's paper production was down by 16% and textiles...
...lust and repression: "What I had once seen as the condition of being female, I now saw as female and Southern. I perceived my mother, grandmothers, sister, daughters-and all the women whose roots I shared-as netted in one mutual silken bondage. Together, we were trapped in a morass of Spanish moss, Bible Belt guilt, and the pressures of a patriarchy stronger than in any other part of the country...
...Western Europe and threaten the foundations of democratic societies. With every sign showing that prices in the U.S. will continue soaring even as the nation begins slumping into recession, President Carter, his re-election jeopardized by the economy more than by anything else, is stuck in an economic morass...