Word: wading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...character stumbles across his authentic self in the role of the Jester, playing the Fool, is astonishingly effective and almost beautiful. But like so much else about this novel, even this is belated. Revelations in a puddle on the very last page don't exactly compensate for the foregoing wade through 400 pages of ankle-deep slush...
...Wade Jr., head lab teaching fellow of Chem 20, said yesterday that the Chemistry Department did not have enough graduate students or money to hire more teaching fellows. "We don't have enough people in the department to make sections small enough," he said...
Television has explored the American Dream and the American family in one incarnation or another since the early fifties. For the most part television producers have restricted their perspectives to the outlook of the situation comedy where bumbling parents and sophisticated kids wade through one suburban cliche after another or the soapopera where the sappy organ music aptly complements the artificial emotional crises. Television's presentation of the collapse of the American Dream was typified by Beaver Cleaver flunking fourth-grade math, or more recently by Archie Bunker confronting black neighbors with more education than he. Except for occasional glimpses...
...however, appreciate the will and the perseverance of the unexcited, hard-working "insufficiently evil" McGovern delegates. What set them apart from the "McCarthy kids" of 1968 was their serious intention of winning and their proven ability to wade through every parliamentary morass the party bosses could lead them into, at any hour of the night...
...letter to President Bok accompanying the report, Wade H. McCree, the chairman of the Review Committee, said "no member agrees with every word of the text, but significantly, no one felt compelled to file a minority report...