Word: singularizing
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...rest of the album, though. My connections with the Beach Boys are tenuous; really only a group of friends who, juiced, are wont to slobber through "ba-ba-ba-ba-barbara ann." I've always felt a little sorry for the Beach Boys, because it is their singular misfortune to represent rock at its nadir, the post-payola early sixties. I've also resented the fact that they managed to ride surf music, that most dubious of forms, to fame and fortune. They don't do that sort of thing any more. Brian. Wilson can't hear well enough...
...prodigious instinct to survive. Their existence owes itself to fate, not to necessity. In this way, Picasso's last show is a depressing commentary on the idea that it is better to paint any thing than nothing; two years of silence would have rounded off that singular life better than these calamitous daubs. Yet in its way, the Avignon show may perform some service to Picasso's reputation. It is hard to see it and retain as workable the myth that everything he painted was touched with genius, and of importance. Unlike Titian or Michelangelo, Picasso failed...
...this and more, most of it bubbling beneath the surface, point up Richard Nixon's staggering problem of restoring his credibility. While the law states that a man is innocent until proved guilty, the perverse ways of human nature and the singular circumstances of Watergate have reversed this fundamental rule. Nixon now stands guilty in many minds until he proves himself innocent...
...seems to me that one of the single biggest problems with medical care is the maze that must be navigated in order to gain access to it. A singular virtue of our health services, I think, is that it is small enough to be manageable, to make sense. That also means it is small enough to get to the bottom of something, small enough for one person to have an impact on it, small enough to change...
...short, almost all those singular contradictions which mark Nixon's presidency are perceived and now raise concern in this old Republican barony. The specifics of the issues are often not even known or understood, but a rule as old as the presidency still is operative. The most telling measure of a man's stewardship finally is himself, or at least the way he portrays himself...