Word: unevennesses
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...loner and a maverick who disdains the Senate "club" way of conducting business, and as a result, his effectiveness as a legislator has been uneven. Proxmire came to the Senate in 1957 after winning a special election to fill the seat vacated by Joseph McCarthy's death. His committee assignments included Banking and Currency, Post Office and Civil Service, which he used to help shape his reputation as one of the chief watchdogs of Government waste...
...Mendelssohn (Victrola). A superstar born in 1876 to the grand romantic tradition. Hofmann never officially released a commercial studio recording after 1924. In May 1935, however, when he was still at peak form, Hofmann made some test recordings for Victor, now released for the first time. The sound is uneven, but the first movement of Chopin's B-Minor Sonata is a matchless example of the controlled give and take he brought to large-scale works. The Chopin-Liszt Maiden's Wish shows how delicate he could be at painting musical miniatures...
...shooting was fairly uneven as the Crimson got off 33 shots to Brown's 20, but shooting statistics are fairly meaningless where Brown is concerned...
Melville's career was incredibly uneven. The creator of Moby Dick was also the author of White-Jacket, Typee, Omoo, and Pierre; or the Ambiguities, and the poet of Battle-Pieces was also the poet of Clarel, an amazingly inept pseudo-epic on Biblical themes. Warren's edition of Melville is a priceless edition to Melville scholarship, for the continuity it brings to the author's work, the way it integrates his fiction and verse in a coherent outline. At Warren's hands, the ambiguous Melville begins to make sense...
...Uneven Leadership. Since then, civil wars have ravaged two of Black Africa's biggest, most populous and potentially richest nations, the Congo and Nigeria. No fewer than 28 countries have experienced either a coup or a serious disturbance. Ten have been forced to call in foreign troops for help. Last month Guinea was invaded by a 350-man band that may have included Portuguese troops as well as Guinean dissidents...