Word: morass
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...anxiety has a good side, it is that the mood has finally penetrated to Capitol Hill. Congressman after Congressman asserts that letting inflation rage unchecked-and voting against anything that might seem likely to slow it-would be political suicide. The search for a way out of the economic morass has come to focus on a balanced budget, not as a panacea but as an indispensable first step toward getting the economy back under control. Besides, nothing else has seemed to work...
...female vocalist tracks. Fleetwood Mac has always been at its best in the slow, seductive songs of Stevie Nicks and the more assertive but somehow also more despairing ones by Christine McVie. Between the two a certain tension exists which keeps the group from sinking totally into the morass of '70s pop. Nicks plays the Looking for Mr. Goodbar-waif, on her eternal cruise for romantic fulfillment, while McVie acts The Unmarried Woman, imagining herself to be above love but actually despairing over her lack...
...League resumed business as usual Saturday: the chaos and unpredictability that characterizes academic football began its annual descent into a prognosticator-confounding morass with a handful of upsets and unexpected thrashings...
...stayed out of the room. I auditioned in vain for plays, trying to regain the cameraderie of my old theater group. But I got rejected again and again, and I finally took refuge in libraries, trying to study my way out of my depression and loneliness. In this morass, I clung to the one human and intellectual contact of that first semester: a freshman seminar on China taught by a man who honestly cared not only about our intellectual development, but also about our personal adjustments to Harvard...
...stayed out of the room. I auditioned in vain for plays, trying to regain the cameraderie of my old theater group. But I got rejected again and again, and I finally took refuge in libraries, trying to study my way out of my depression and loneliness. In this morass, I clung to the one human and intellectual contact of that first semester: a freshman seminar on China taught by a man who honestly cared not only about our intellectual development, but also about our personal adjustments to Harvard...