Word: surfeited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hole-in-the-shoe fellow who would walk a mile for a Camel, and the snooty adventurer who incredibly prefers a Silva Thin to a maiden plump. Forbidden by Congress to promote their cigarettes on television and radio after Jan. 1, tobacco companies clogged the airways with a surfeit of last-minute plugs, especially during the New Year's Day bowl games...
Another source of malaise is surfeit with politics, a turn toward personalism. Says Thorn Pringle, 29, an Indianan with degrees in engineering and business administration now living on Spain's Costa del Sol: "I don't want to fight America's problems. I'm too busy with...
Boosterism is dying in Arizona. Meeting at the Grand Canyon, an ad hoc group of 96 leading citizens called "Town Hall" voted surprisingly to stop spending public funds to attract new industry and residents to the state. Reason: a surfeit of success. While Arizona's 20-year boom has brought immediate economic benefits, it is also impairing the state's natural beauty and resources. Though it has no official power, the group wants to conserve the state for future inhabitants. Urging more government attention to the environment, it recommends specific bans on billboards, nonreturnable bottles and detergents that...
...lyrical self-examination, during the exhaustion of shame through to the reassertion of resolve. It is the tone of Achilles by the sea, of the first speeches of Samson Agonistes. Volume is not anger, humiliation, or passion. The voice of beauty is quiet, intense. Mr. Snyder delivered a surfeit of apostrophes, read too many end-stopped lines, and tended to pause too long on the caesturas. But Miss Yakutis perfectly captured Cleopatra's shock at her power to lead Antony to desert and thus betray himself in this scene. It is the moment of deepest learning on her part...
Adding to the surfeit of facts is another problem???-the authors prose style. The book is made ??? the kind of durable, unpretentious journalese that ??? has filled newspapers for years. It is clear, usually ??? concise, and rarely awkward or bumbling. But since ??? it lacks any literary sparkle of its own, it mean ??? that each paragraph is only as interesting as the ??? events being described. In The Harvard Strike, tha ??? makes for a few high points and quite a few lows...