Word: meanderings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year is probably too remote for many law students to use as a motivation to full application throughout the school year. Gearing their entire first year's performance to six exams at the end of the year is unnecessarily unpleasant and sometimes dehumanizing. Many students decline the challenge and meander through the year, hoping only to get by." Some find themselves distracted by the atmosphere of tension and isolation, and they resent it. Others feel they have no choice but to work toward the system's goal, but they find that that goal--high performance on exams--has only...
...listener that they have pulled back from the electronic adventurousness and the matic unity of Sgt. Pepper. Their new album is much more relaxed and modest. Well and good; there is no reason why Sgt. Pepper should be a shackling precedent for whatever follows. But when the foursome meander from style to style without any apparent guiding objective or sense of urgency, they seem to be substituting synthetics for synthesis. Even their renewed interest in the song styles of the English music hall and rhythm and blues-one of the album's most attractive features-is slightly tainted...
...situation meanings of the grandest sort: the contraction of the future, the falsification of memory, the decay of language, the failure of human potential, and the persistence of human dignity. Yet the movement of the act in which this content is implicit seems to lack internal discipline, to meander where focus should be asserted, to court nonsense and boredom for their own sweet, seductive sakes...
...should have wound the work into a powerful coil of tension remained slack. Only the opening section of the 20-minute piece, with its urgent string passages set off against barking brass, was fully effective. In the second section, an elegiac fugue turned slowly on itself, then began to meander...
Jerome Park Reservoir in The Bronx is a mile-long meander of New York City drinking water. Often dotted with migratory waterfowl, it serves as a cool, quivery mirror to the red brick apartments and raucous traffic that surround it. The 97-acre artificial lake, built in 1905, holds 800 million gallons of water to quench the thirst of nearly a million New Yorkers. Last year Republican Mayor John Lindsay's reform administration discovered that the reservoir's spalled concrete bottom had never been cleaned, and decided to scour it out. "Because of the magnitude...