This intellectual biography traces the evolving ideas of "the only anthropologist to have achieved global fame," from his brief, bungled field work, in Brazil, through his kinship with the Surrealists to his professed disillusionment with modernism and with modernity itself.
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The trial will open a new chapter in a politically freighted mystery that has painted a chilling picture of bungled police work, a faltering judicial system and public indifference.
Those who were injured and the survivors of the dead say the Railway Ministry, which has a long history of corruption, skimped on safety work, bungled the rescue effort and tried to hide the extent of its failings.
The government in Delhi had been keeping an open mind about whether to talk to him after the elections, but outrages such as the murder of Kashmir's law minister are bound to shut it.India, too, bungled its democratic prep work.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson has usually been patronised as a second-rater who bungled the transmission of Dickinson's work by allowing too much editorial tampering, a man whose bourgeois conventionality tried to silence a woman poet's true voice.
Yes, President Obama deserves credit for passing a health care law, which will hopefully work in spite of its bungled rollout, that numerous presidents, including Bill Clinton, could not.
Given the quality of that work — based on his testimony, it looks bungled — one almost wonders which side would have an interest in keeping him at it.
But with above-average mechanical skills and a decently equipped work space, you can pick up a bungled project car cheap and turn it into a true warrior.
But after a bungled lunch interview (spaghetti was involved) and a detour working at Bloomingdale's, she answered an ad to be an assistant at Shelton Mindel.
Liddy volunteered to do the bloody work and make the crime look like a bungled robbery.
