Word: mushing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Davis exclaims, sitting in an empty Midwestern concert hall listening to the first rehearsal of his new Violin Concerto by the Kansas City Symphony. "I know I wrote slurs over those eighth notes, but they're all jumbled together. They sound like mush." Davis jumps up and heads toward the conductor, score in hand. "We need to hear each one separately," he says. "Dig-a-da-dum!" he scats, his right hand punching the air in emphasis. All at once, something that had been mumbled turns articulate as the strings bite into their parts...
...smile could raise welts, and her dinner-table conversation regularly drew blood, some as blue as her own. She dismissed her cousin Franklin Roosevelt as "two-thirds mush and one-third Eleanor." When Columnist Joseph Alsop, another cousin, attributed grass-roots support to Wendell Willkie, the Republican hope to topple F.D.R. in 1940, she said yes, "the grass roots of 10,000 country clubs." It was she who demolished Thomas E. Dewey, the 1944 G.O.P. candidate, with the gibe that "he looks like the little man on the wedding cake...
Which is something you need if you're going to mush with a bunch of Huskies...
...days earlier, when he called the deficit with other nations a "sign of strength" because "our growing economy enables us to buy their goods." This rationalization provoked ridicule from Democratic critics. Congressman Richard Gephardt of Missouri, a champion of fair trade and a presidential candidate, labeled Reagan's argument "mush." Said he: "The trade deficit is an indication that we're not winning our share of the world economy." Rudolph Oswald, chief economist of the AFL-CIO, agreed. "Reagan must have been reading Alice in Wonderland rather than the U.S. trade figures. He's got everything upside down...
That this well-documented and instantly recognizable personality type can be produced chemically is not something we as a nation can afford to ignore or abandon. I grant that to the naturally relaxed, amiable, motivated person, excessive marijuana use can zap desirable qualities into a mush of lethargy and reclusive behavior. This is not to say, however, that it would be beneficial to eliminate marijuana use in our society. For people who are naturally bellicose, annoying, pretentious or disruptive, pot is an effective neutralizer that, without hindering the individual from leading a relatively fulfulling and happy life, can successfully integrate...