Word: morass
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...Stanton is equally busy trying to keep the show on CBS. Instead of becoming memorable as the year TV came of age, this season may go down in history as the one in which TV took the same dismal turn as radio and lost itself in an endless morass of giveaway shows...
...Importance of Living) Yutang resigned his post as chancellor of newborn Nanyang University (TIME, Aug. 16). Ostensibly, the row was over the school's first budget and operating policies. But behind the scenes, Nanyang, set up primarily to win Oriental minds for the West, was an ideological morass, a battleground where the Communists had already opened a rabbit-punch struggle to capture minds for their own cause. In despair and frustration. Dr. Lin, more a scholar than a dynamic educator, capitulated...
...measure of the author's success that he manages to add still another dimension to the familiar portrait. Ten years after France emerged theoretically victorious from World War II, 15 years after its fall to the Germans, France is still fallen-floundering in a moral and political morass. The record of 1940 tells not only why France was unable to win then, but why it is unable to govern itself today...
High and Dry is an apt description of where this picture leaves its moments of excellent humor. Stranded above a morass of soggy sentiment and damp moralizing are the touches that have pushed British comedy beyond popularity to the point...
...many of its predecessors from across the Atlantic. Its success in London may have been due in part to playright Terence Rattigan's gift for easy dialogue and his mastery of subtle character analysis, two qualities dear to the hearts of British theatre-goers. But deep down, beneath the morass of complex personal relationships, the play is without core. Rattigan guides his characters' development with delicate artistry, but when called upon, can never quite resolve the tangled ends of their psychoses into a unified, coherent theory...