Word: mereness
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...wouldn't like that? But the President's advisers know there is a huge gap between his fond wishes and their possible fulfillment. Some of them have a memory. By the time of the 1992 election, "the new world order" had become mere evidence of the hubris of a President who seemed awed by the scanner at a supermarket checkout. "We had this problem in the early '90s," said a State Department official last week. "You know--'It's a new world, we can do everything.' Our rhetoric was way ahead of where it should...
Historically, the presidential installation ceremony has been much more than a mere display of tradition. It is a presentation of the new goals of a new president...
...Harvard a company just like GM? Many of us would be dismayed by such a conception: students as consumers, faculty as producers, the janitors and dining hall workers mere machinery, I suppose, in the great knowledge factory. But Harvard’s professed educational mission requires that it be much more than that: we value education because we value people enough to think it’s worth educating them. We think that being educated in the arts and sciences is different from being trained to use a machine. While we may seek to substitute technology for repetitive manual labor...
...verge on the scope of epic poetry with their descriptions of sweeping narratives, and the shorter pieces, some consisting of only four or five lines, are usually terse, biting commentary. Common sentiment is promptly rejected in “Drought Dust on the Crockery,” in a mere five lines of verse, “Things were not better / when I was young: / things were poorer and harsher, / drought dust on the crockery,/ and I was young...
...Neither did the theory of computing that Thursday, or my senior thesis at any point that week. Without the comfortable assumption that we have four years to waste here, that the important events will all take place within our campus bubble, such work seemed perilously out of place, mere distractions from the crisis of the outside world...