Word: erraticism
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Paradoxically, Brandt has always seemed a greater man to the rest of the world than he did to his own people. Many Germans saw him not as a world statesman but as an erratic politician who was subject to spasms of lethargy and drink-fueled melancholy, who talked aimlessly of...
Each episode is rendered in a distinct style. The first is a sort of soundstage fairy tale, deliberately embellished with unreal sets and effects (like an erratic snowfall). The second is done as eccentric, even surreal comedy, the third as a bucolic elegy, full of rich fields and dappled light...
Jonathan Kwitny, the Wall Street Journal reporter who wrote the story, and his managing editor Frederick Taylor were astonished by the reaction but stood by the story. Combustion Engineering got out a press release accusing the Wall Street Journal of unspecified inaccuracies and is preparing a more detailed rebuttal in...
It's an axiom in Cambridge that the city council resembles nothing more than an erratic circus, and rent control is its most dependable elephant. In a city with a large number of renters who are well-organized by tenant and community groups, debates over control have been the council...
This kind of time is mythic, biblical, fairy tale time. In a mysterious way it preserves instead of oppressing; the men of Leaf Storm and No One Writes to the Colonel--not a Buendia among them--are all slaves of a destructive sort of time. The remnants of Aureliano's...