Word: alphabetization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Also represented: Sotadic verses, pangrammatic rubaiyat and problems in alphametics (alphabet arithmetic). They are all wonderfully ingenious and entertaining, and so is Author Borgmann, who dazzles right down to the last word - which happens to be a palindrome: ZZZZ. But the last word really belongs to the readers, and it will doubtless be another palindrome...
...average Brazilian, party politics is about as sensible as alphabet soup: no fewer than 14 machine-controlled parties, each known popularly by its two-or three-letter initials, provide more than enough confusion for any ordinary citizen. Effective action in Congress is chronically hobbled by interparty bickering and mercurial coalitions. "Our politics have not surpassed tribal primitivism," admits José Eduardo Kelly, a founder of U.D.N. (National Democratic Union), one of the parties in President Humberto Castello Branco's current coalition...
...student and familiar of his household, has assembled what amounts to a private exhibit: most of these 160 studies, here presented in stunning four-color plates, have not been shown before. The artist has illuminated many of them with his own comments, and has contributed the gay, gaudy "Picasso alphabet"-multicolor flourishes in chalk-that adorns Miss Parmelin's text. The period covered is 1954-63, when Picasso, working with explosive exuberance, immortalized his lovely model (and later, second wife), Jacqueline Roque, on canvas and also in sheet metal, cast iron and ceramic tile...
Because of the borrowing of words from other languages, the new work will add five letters-J, K, W, X and Y-that have not been part of the formal Italian alphabet. It will cost about $5,000,000, fill 20 volumes, each 1,000 pages thick. It is all a labor of love for the academy's dynamic President Giacomo Devoto, who at 67 is not likely to live much beyond the publication of Volume I, scheduled...
...Every alphabet's archaic...