Word: unrealness
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...government professor said yesterday, "this debate has generated into a confusing, and very boring, circus." From a distance, of course, the debate has seemed anything but boring. Tempers have flared; grandiose schemes have been hatched; coalitions have formed and dissolved. But the hoopla and intrigue have been wholly unreal, for the debate has completely by-passed the real issues. No one has seriously attacked the central questions: What does "general" mean in the 1960's? Why do so few top-flight professors want to teach Gen Ed courses? Why do students so often despise the courses and refuse to attend...
...film, on the other hand, he is a milquetoast. He looks like a model from some fashion magazine--just as depressingly lifeless, unreal, and unlikeable. He is no more than a simple foil for Zorba. The film implies, apparently unintentionally, that this effeminate character is homosexual. Although the suggestion is later contradicted, it is unmistakable and confusing...
...rightist radical's hates are directed toward people, Hall said, because the rightest is "a passionate system lover." The reactionary vocabulary is "the symbolism of the middle class," he added, because its power comes from a set of unreal American ideals...
...glass blocks. No two are alike; all are completely abstract. The canons of modern architecture can make a well-lit garage as well as a bright cathedral, but building to enlighten man's soul requires a special illumination. Says Glassmaker Loire: "A stained glass window should be something unreal-something between heaven and earth-which, in fact, it literally...
...These are the students' cars," says English Teacher Jeanne Hernandez, pointing to a fast collection of "wheels" ranging up to Jags, "and there are the teachers' cars," pointing to a sedate group of compacts and the like. "It's so lush here that it's unreal," she says. "After a while you feel like a missionary in the tropics. If you don't get out, you go native...