Word: morass
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...especially fond of dropping hints that the real danger lies deeper than surface appearance. He emphasizes the unreal disguises of the magician and his wife as one of the reflections of this metaphysical concept--a crude and uninventive metaphor, I find. These admirable, is unoriginal, sentiments appear in a morass of conflicting counter-theories. Accident and the completely gratuitous introduction of the bizarre for mere effect add to the confusion--though they contribute immeasurably to the melodramatic effectiveness of the film. The theme is never handled in a way that suggests Bergman really knows what he thinks about the "real...
...Nixon, he and his fellow triumvirs Galbraith and Bowles have also deserted the Democratic Party. Mr. Nixon weeps, "The Democratic Party of Jefferson, Jackson, and Wilson is not the Democratic Party of Schlesinger, Galbraith and Bowles." Kennedy's three top advisors have led him astray into a morass of "liberalism" and huge government spending, and, if one is to believe the vice-President, America can not and will not accept this unholy trio. Unfortunately, Professor Schlesinger has chosen to reply in kind...
Biggest of the problems that such people face is Suburbia's growing morass of overlapping services and functions, especially in counties that have experienced a big building rush. In the 17 towns that comprise Denver's four-county suburban area, for example, there are 27 school districts, 35 water districts, 59 sanitation districts. The Suburbia of Portland, Ore. embraces three counties, 178 special service districts, 60 school districts, twelve city governments. And the granddaddy of them all is the megalopolis of Los Angeles which is fish-netted with 72 separate governments and an uncounted array of districts, authorities...
...middle-class people, but not the workers or the intellectuals. What we need is a presentation of the Bible's historical truth in such a way that it is acceptable to today's intellectuals. Now as before, the Bible can be acted upon, even in the intellectual morass of the 20th century...
...biggest man in India. But at a considerable cost to the nation and himself. Last year Nehru told newsmen that he was feeling "flat and stale," and wanted to retire as Prime Minister. He was ravaged by the ceaseless struggle to get things done in the timeless, bottomless morass of India. Food production is still at the mercy of the nation's cycles of flood and drought. Huge, multipurpose economic projects start out magnificently and then gradually fall farther and farther behind schedule. The second five-year plan had to be abruptly cut back because it was creating...