Word: quicksands
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...week's end, there were indications that the Chinese were encountering tougher terrain and tougher resistance than they had perhaps expected. Presumably, they had the might and numbers to penetrate as far as they chose. But could they extricate themselves from the historic quicksand with similar ease? The gravestones at Dien Bien Phu. The carcasses of Marine helicopters near Danang. Other place names, other landmarks testify to the tragic fortunes of outsiders who visited Viet Nam in the past and later wished they had never come. In meting out their "lesson," the Chinese?like the French and Americans before them?...
...meager number of tenured women at Harvard--there are only eleven. Read the polls which tell you there are fewer college-educated women entering the job market than men without college educations. The women's movement has certainly publicized its cause, but seems to be sinking into quicksand along the road somewhere...
...Vase" ("The Quicksand") was produced in 1971, and features Ionesco as both scriptwriter and its only leading actor...
Focusing on the circumstances leading to an old man's death and decay in a swamp of quicksand, the work is, as Ionesco described it, "rather sad--the story of a man who does not know his reason for living...
...will undoubtedly receive further analysis in the years ahead, analyses less damning and mroe favorable than those focusing on Watergate alone. But in his defense of Nixon's Watergate actions--in his argument that the press should have investigated Watergate, but just not so obsessively--Price is standing on quicksand. Even Price admits that although he continued to argue Nixon's Watergate case, he himself experienced "general doubts" about that case. And Price says that, given the opportunity, he too would probably have joined in the coverup...