Word: washyness
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The obvious themes are built into the plot, and you can't ignore them. Peckinpah has put a rational, wishy-washy liberal under stress, simply so that he may understand man's violence: that it is inherent in his nature, that sometimes the violent solutions are the only valid ones...
The liberal position, of course, is that "no girl has ever been seduced by a book." That statement is erroneous, according to Poet-Librarian Felix Pollak-or at least he hopes it is: "For the saying doesn't do the cause of literature any good, or the intellectual cause...
He also emphasized the fact that University reaction to this building takeover has been "incredibly slow and wishy-washy in comparison to their handling of the black takeover of University Hall in early December last year." The injunction against the women's takeover came three days after the event, whereas...
Law student enthusiasm over his appointment two years ago has cooled into a sullen acceptance. "That's the Bok way of doing things," one second-year student shrugged during a curriculum reform discussion. "If you understand the Law School, you know that nothing changes very fast over there... but lots...
To Schmidt, who was born on July 7 and was obviously dissatisfied at being designated a Cancer (sign of the tenacious, motherly and easily influenced), the change is eminently logical. The new line-up makes him a Gemini, "as might be expected, perhaps, of one who writes fiction and poetry...