Word: blemishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gold is hardly shocked. He is no stranger to doublethink. A literary hustler whose interest in Government is a sham, he does not even vote, a fact "he could not disclose publicly without bringing blemish to the image he had constructed for himself as a radical moderate...
...many adolescents, the first blemish signals one of life's more distressing rites of passage to adulthood. But fortunately for most youngsters, acne is temporary and can be relieved, if not entirely cured, with special soaps and lotions Yet in about 2% of all cases the skin disorder is severe; large pus-filled nodules appear on the face and often on the back and chest as well. Antibiotics and other treatments work for some patients but others are often left permanently scarred...
That moment was the one blemish in an otherwise perfect 1977-78 campaign for the Harvard men's swimming team, one that included an undefeated dual meet season, an Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League title, a cascade of individual and team records, and a fifteenth place finish in the NCAA Championships, the Crimson's best since...
This season, second-year coach Joe Bernal's budding program is geared to erase that blemish once and for all. You see, the Tigers have won six Eastern Championships in a row. Harvard has never won. But when the meet comes to Cambridge in early March, things should be different...
...DOES have problems. Cant terms and phrases blemish the work, including, foremost, "nurture" in all possible tenses and manifestations. "Parent" is used repeatedly as a transitive verb, a questionable usage more startling than necessary. Quotations, essential to carrying the book outside the limited experience of ten women, sometimes obtrude, making the prose lurch like some balky pack-animal. And the eighth chapter, a pseudo-Marxist critique of American society, seems incongruous and overextends the credibility of the authors...