Word: surfeited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exhaustion. He said to me this: "Of course it's so of course it's not correct. It isn't right for some of us here to have so much, and others have so little. It isn't right. It isn't necessary. We don't need all this surfeit and excess...
...Prospering Bureaucrats" [Aug. 27] is an ill-advised choice of phrase unless you are prepared to defend its authenticity. As a matter of fact, no career civil service employee in America is suffering from a surfeit of "prosperity" in these or any other times. On the contrary, authoritative wage surveys have repeatedly shown that when viewed alongside his counterparts in private industry, he is on the wrong side of the stick at every turn...
...mile has seemed personally to belong to Harvard's Ric Rojas of late, and the junior is favored again this weekend. There are, however, a surfeit of sub-nine-minute two milers to contend with, so the race could be a wide-open affair, as could the mile with John Quirk...
...these great events in these two volumes are the great set pieces of the nine years covered by his diary. But the diarist's true brilliance and worth are to be found in everyday doings. Abridgments, bowdlerizations, fine bindings, one-volume editions of Pepys have appeared in surfeit. But there has not been a complete new edition since H.B. Wheatley's in the 1890s, and that one like all its predecessors was riddled with mistakes, suppressions, minor and major omissions...
This kind of cinema is rich and strange, and not too easily digestible. Ken Russell's helping unfortunately reaches a surfeit about halfway through...