Word: patchwork
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of the snow is gone except for a pile by the backstop. The grass is a curious patchwork of light shades of brown and green. Somehow one can't imagine players in clean white uniforms charging out onto the green to start their seasons in just a month...
...plan is a patchwork of medieval chivalry, Confederate rhetoric and shoot-'em-up justice. He will go away with the girl in the next room - a patient in the asylum who has been gang-raped into insensibility. In Lancelot's view, this outrage has purified her of every indulgence he hates in the modern world. Together they will be the new Adam and Eve, dedicated to "a stern code, a gentleness toward women and an intolerance of swinishness...
...faculty, Masters, and administrators. With the weight of the many diverse arguments in mind, it seems appropriate now to come to a decision and to take steps to resolve some of the issues at hand. To fail to do so is to allow what has been recognized as a patchwork system to continue indefinitely, and to attempt indefinitely to meet core problems with piecemeal solutions...
...city's future may be the fate of central Beirut. Before the war, this was the commercial and financial hub of the Middle East. During the fighting, a 30-block patchwork of streets in the center was reduced to rubble; 6,000 shops and offices there were destroyed. Abandoning the central area, many Christian and Moslem businessmen are reopening in their own religious enclaves. Victor Kassir, president of Beirut's merchants' association, fears that "if the central district is left as a ruined no man's land, Beirut may de facto become partitioned permanently." One proposal...
Stahr cannot credit, either, the fact that there are some people who might decline to share his dreams of patchwork celluloid. Kathleen Moore, a girl Stahr sees as his own perfect romantic vision, a shade of his dead wife, does not even go to the movies. "Why not?" Stahr asks her, seriously puzzled. "Millions of people do. Movies give them what they need." Kathleen contradicts him. "What you need...