Word: utterness
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...mind for his trophy. The Brown alumnus (17) and rowing devotee in 1965 commissioned the Stein Trophy to be given each year to the winner of the Brown-Harvard varsity heavyweight battle. And for 17 years, that trophy has remained in enemy hands, a symbol of the Crimson's utter naval dominance...
...Kennedys is especially so. The driven patriarch gave his sons the means and the marching orders to impose themselves on the world: "They need not scramble, or be predators. They would live on the heights to which he lifted them." The result of this freedom, Wills argues, was utter confinement...
...cast of Wanda June cannot be blamed for its weakness. Inspired acting saves the play from utter despair as the actors attempt to adapt the material But the acting ultimately only frustrates the audience, which wants to see more of their wares and less of their struggling to convey the play's tangled plot...
...FURTHER the essays wander into this sort of nihilistic agonizing, the weaker they become. One pitfall of utter pessimism is that, properly approached, it appears all-encompassing--everything connects, from genocide to boredom to Samuel Beckett's Endgame and Godot. Cantor's penchant for citing his predecessors aggravates the problem. He quotes Norman O. Brown on Hegel in reference to Beckett's plays to bolster his own assertion, not explained further, that "time is negativity"; he quotes Frederic Jameson on Ernst Block on Marxism. Two comments on Beckett are separated by the sentence, "Krazy Kat hopes that someday Ignatz Mouse...
...predominant concern during Watergate was not the investigations that formed the headlines of the day. It I was to sustain the credibility of the U.S. as a major power. We could-and did-take diplomatic initiatives; we could- and did-utter warnings against threats to our security. But the authority to implement them was beginning to seep away...