Word: whole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...roam the cleared fields, but at the edge of the bush I felt an emotional barrier: no humans wanted. The kookaburras cackled derisively, and I inagined how the original settlers must have felt on first hearing that dismembered sound, coming out of the forest like a deranged banshee, a whole ancient continent helpless with mirth at the efforts of these stiff European turkeys to bend it to their will...
That spirit never fully formed, but that can be blamed more on the problems with the whole rally than on the Young Radios, who played with a lot of energy, intensity, and spirit of their own. After an instrumental bit and a quasi-reggae tune called Scratching (Ruskin: "say sort-of reggae, don't put down that I said quasi-reggae"), the Radios launched into "Modern Day Leper Man," a song about the Three-Mile Island near-disaster, before finishing up with "South Africa." Because the march was not ready to start on time, they did "South Africa" again...
...further admit that she manages to combine the best features of a whole pack of other musicians (although different reviews have used different musicians to create the montage they think Rickie is). Given the rarity of female musicians on major labels, especially women who write and perform their own music instead of parasiting off everyone else, she is especially welcome...
Liberal faculty are almost unanimous in placing a large share of the blame on Pusey for bad communication, and for polarizing faculty and students. "The whole thing was avoidable--it took the inflexibility of Pusey and Harvard's built-in arrogance. Pusey was like Dean Rusk--he felt that God was on his side," Thomson notes...
...read with some dismay the recent letter to The Crimson signed by a dozen teaching fellows in Government (April 23, 1979). The authors of this letter urge students and faculty neither to boycott classes nor, presumably, to engage in any demonstrations organized in whole or part by the Coalition for Awareness and Action. Why? Because to do so would be to tacitly accept their "irresponsible accusation" about American society as well as "the bad judgment it encourages...