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...ought not, though, to allow ourselves to be trapped in perpetual girlhood because of a poverty of language. After all, some of the aptest sociological terms in our language—“WASP,” say, or “Yuppie”—are of relatively recent coinage. We may not yet feel comfortable calling ourselves women—but we need not call ourselves girls by default. We might, for instance, begin refer to ourselves as “dolls”—a term both more precisely equivalent...
There are precedents for monetary integration, though usually conquerors simply repudiated the old currency and introduced their own. Perhaps the aptest parallel with East Germany's situation is the 1957 reintegration into West Germany of the Saar, after it had been incorporated into the French franc area for eleven years. But both sides were operating with realistic exchange rates; besides, the Saar then had 1 million inhabitants, while East Germany still has some 16 million...
What can you say about a brilliant medieval philosopher-theologian, 37 and virginal, who falls in love with his aptest pupil, the 17-year-old niece of a canon of Notre Dame, has a child by her, marries her and then is castrated by the hired thugs of the irate and possibly incestuous-minded uncle? After all that, Abelard and Heloise live in undying love in separate cloisters. Erich Segal, meet Playwright Ronald Millar, your British opposite number...
...BIOGRAPHY OF ALFRED E. SMITH by Richard O'Connor. 318 pages. Putnam. $6.95. In nostalgic political memory, Alfred Emanuel Smith appears as a jaunty, cigar-chomping, roughhewn Irishman in a brown derby, the first serious Roman Catholic candidate for President, and the man who later turned on his aptest pupil, Franklin Roosevelt, to become a noisy opponent of the New Deal. All that is true as far as it goes-except that Smith was no more than half Irish. But the myth does little justice to the gifted, compulsive, frequently tormented man who created it in the first place...
...Anthony Newley, the versatile book-song-mime-and-dance man of Stop the World, to belabor his favorite subject -what a raw deal the Little Man gets in this worst of all possible worlds. This time, Newley's ubiquitous underdog is called Cocky instead of Littlechap, though the aptest name for him would be Poppycocky...