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Conversely, to violate the limits of the ordinary Babbit, to act and react uniquely, is evidence of the uniqueness of self. An act to prove you are there, not logged in the monolithic square morass. In On the Road, incidents and factual details are piled on top of one another in the desperate insistence that something happened. In company the hot beats are forever retelling and reminiscing: "Member that time back in . . .?" The most insignificant tripe is described as "crazy," "exciting," "the greatest...
...pays some $250 for his apartment is likely to find the price does not include a kindly landlord or even one who can be tracked down; faced with a leak that can't be stopped, and no one but his wife who cares, he must plunge into the morass of building regulations...
...slow that the area is locally dubbed "Hiroshima Flats." The New York Times's Ada Louise Huxtable charged that the rebuilders had razed "the heart and history" of the city by clearing the riverfront. Defenders point out that the storied waterfront had long deteriorated into a grimy morass of dilapidated warehouses, buildings and residences. Developers have been scrupulous in preserving the architectural monuments of the area-the old courthouse and the cathedral-and have stored the best examples of cast-iron storefronts to be put on display in the new Museum of Westward Expansion...
...ponderous load of problems as well (TIME, April 27, 1962). Mired in a vast swamp of bureaucracy, militant unions and second-rate talent, the state-operated Paris Opera had foundered helplessly for nearly two decades. Five postwar administrators had promised revolution, only to sink quietly into the morass. Some tried staging productions à la Folies-Bergère, featuring flights of ballerinas being hoisted to heaven on wires, madly flapping their arms and showering rose petals while spray guns hissed perfume into the audience. But the audiences hissed right back, and the Paris Opera, a towering rococo palace covering three...
...volcanic mud onto the out skirts of Cartago, killing 13 people and wrecking hundreds of homes. Now the danger is worse. A thick layer of unstable ash has accumulated in the area between Cartago and the smoking mountain. With the rainy season approaching, it may turn into a slithery morass and, faster than a man can run, slide down the valleys, picking up rocks and trees. The first heavy rain to soak Irazú, Tazieff fears, may well start a giant mudslide capable of destroying Cartago...