Word: shapelessly
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...chanted patriotic folk songs and conducted group discussions. Each evening they danced in the streets beneath the gaze of impassive Viet Minh soldiers; the dance started at 8, never earlier, ended at 10, never later. Twice weekly at Hanoi's National Theater, before an audience of men in shapeless tunics and women officials in pigtails, the Viet Minh army "Culture Corps" recited a tone poem, to the wailing of reedy instruments. "Wipe away your tears," they intoned. "The enemy is gone. In the North, in the South we are the same family and nothing can divide...
Energize & Win. Nixon's main task is to prod the Republican organization into action. But he also has given some sort of consistent pattern to a shapeless G.O.P. campaign. The pattern, as it emerged last week: Communism...
...hours later that night, Brigadier General Hussein Azemudeh, the thin-lipped military prosecutor, drove up to the barracks and sent for the prisoners. Two months ago nine of the ten prisoners had been splendidly uniformed brother officers of his. Now, in shapeless prison garb, heads shaven, stubbly faces pale, they shuffled in. The general glared at the first man, and said harshly: "You are called here to make your will. Know what I mean?" Colonel Siamak cleared his throat. "Yes," he said, "I know." The appeal had failed...
...writing. At his worst, he is downright incomprehensible ("Prices are basis prices per ton for the representative-basis-pricing specification and size and quantity"). But even at his best, he is often fuzzy. There is, says Sir Ernest, "an unwillingness to venture outside a small vocabulary of shapeless bundles of uncertain content-words like position, arise, involve, in connection with, issue, consideration, and factor-a disposition, for instance, to 'admit with regret the position which has arisen in connection with,' rather than to make the effort to tell the reader specifically what is admitted with regret." An official...
Contemporary veto groups-ethnic, sectarian, regional, occupational-are more shapeless and more numerous than the old American interest groups, which had clear ideas about their goals. The new ones spread their pressures beyond the field of politics into, for instance, movie censoring. Their leadership is heavy with inside-dopesters. Their membership ranks are swelled by new-style indifferents, driven thence by well-meaning moralizers, who are always railing at the indifferents for not taking part in politics. Anxious to conform, the indifferent finds a group- but remains at heart an indifferent. Vetogroup leaders can manipulate the indifferents, but usually...