Word: morass
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There-this essay (from the French, essai, to try, test) has officially degenerated into a morass of egocentric affectations and Harvardian putdowns. It's the thing you've got to watch out for here. For I haven't told you about how Harvard tears you apart, because that is the part that is difficult to tell. (See John Updike's short story "The Christian Roommates" in his collection The Music School or, on a once-removed level read John Berth's The End of the Road. ) Despite, or maybe because of, our spurious elitism, we are an insecure bunch. Harvard...
...regarded as a fair jurist who conducts court business in open court, shunning closed-door conferences. His brusque conduct at last week's pre-inquest hearings suggested that he hopes and intends to preserve the decorum of a procedure that, as he knows, could dissolve into a constitutional morass...
Viet Nam is no less of a morass, and the flag-draped coffins still come home to Oswego and Oakland from Cu Chi and Da Nang; yet the nation has decided, without its President's precisely saying so, that it is all over except for a bit more shooting. After the prodding rhetoric of John Kennedy and the strident goading of Lyndon Johnson, Americans, for the moment, are at unaccustomed ease...
...taken deep hold that any government-or policy-will overcome the problem. Britain long ago stopped making full use of either its individual resources or its technological know-how. Only if it succeeds in using both will its economy gain the strength to climb out of the present morass...
Transforming today's tax morass into a system with less capacity for social damage will require strenuous effort...