Word: shapelessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would be much better off if that big, sprawling, incoherent, shapeless, slobbering civic idiot in the family of American communities, the city of Los Angeles, could be declared incompetent and placed in charge of a guardian like any individual mental defective. . . . Los Angeles is the source and home of more political, economic and religious idiocy than all the rest of the country together...
...poorer and more quarrelsome, it seemed that James Farrell was obsessed with the dreariness of life in the section where he had grown up. First volume of the new series, A World I Never Made, told of Jim O'Neill, a goodhearted, leather-faced teamster, and his shrill, shapeless, ill-natured wife Lizz. It broke off when the O'Neills collected $1,000 after their son was run over. Written in the same slow tempo as Farrell's earlier works, with characters who were fatuous when they were not brutal, it gave an even more dispiriting picture...
...were flashed on the screen: pictures of the unemployed, of banks, of labor-saving machinery. Some were clear, some blurred, a few merely smears and jagged lines. When Critic Boyd announced solemnly that the greatest show on earth properly began with man, television illustrated the observation with a mysterious shapeless blob of shadow that could not by any stretch of the imagination be called a representation of a human being. Observers nevertheless agreed that the review as a whole gave a strong impression of what the book was all about, an even stronger impression that it would be a long...
...showdown before Representatives, Senators, Capital correspondents and the President of the U. S. By week's end the TVA family row, like the Great Boyg which oppressed Ibsen's hero Peer Gynt, was beginning to seem a tantalizing something at once too big to ignore and too shapeless to grasp...
Twisted into shapeless scrap were the engine, cars, shovels. Boulders flew like buckshot with here and there a human leg or arm, some landing as much as a mile distant. When the storm had passed 55 lay dead, 201 injured. Stricken with horror, the newshawks rushed from their vantage point to become stretcher-bearers and ambulance drivers. Hundreds of weeping women surged to the mine's terraces, searched hysterically among mountains of debris for husbands and sweethearts. To begin an immediate in vestigation, the Governor of Antofagasta Province hurried to the scene, declared...