Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lasch's discussion of contemporary emotional life, while apt, is under whelming. He notes that "the contemporary survival mentality...turns from public questions" This statement, while accurate, does not consider the American tradition of shrugging off public life as unimportant or as already hopeless. Implying that he is dealing with a new phenomenon, Lasch skirts the issue of historical depth. He is justly disturbed by the fact that the language and imagery of concentration camps has penetrated ordinary life. He thinks that to emphasize survivial alone and to reject self-sacrifice is despicable. But this judgement is qualified...
...setting was historically apt. Until the Civil War, the ornate and intimate Old Senate Chamber, its dark wooden desks arranged in semicircles, rang with the spirited oratory of Daniel Webster, Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun. Last week, when the Senate's 53 Republicans gathered in the museum-like room to elect their leader for the next two years, the forensics were apparently no less rousing. Kansan Robert Dole claimed to be thoroughly persuaded by the speech his nominator, John Danforth of Missouri, made on his behalf. "It was so impressive," Dole quipped, "that I ended up voting...
...proof of bias, it is merely a necessity: the millions of words a newspaper receives must be reduced to the thousands it prints; hours of tape must be fitted to the time constraint of a half-hour news program. The bias, if there is one, is less apt to be in ideology than in choosing what will most interest the audience or document the thesis the journalist has found in the material...
...single most hopeful bit of progress in U.S.-Soviet relations since the now moribund START discussions got under way more than two years ago. When President Reagan was told about the Geneva plans last Monday at his Santa Barbara ranch, recalls McFarlane, his response was simple and apt. "This is good news," Reagan said...
Hidden in all of this, embedded and often engulfing her narrative, Lurie reveals her own love of writing, an old-fashioned and well-honed gift for the clever phrase and the apt insight. "To take off all your clothes and lie down beside some unclothed larger person is a terribly risky business. The odds are stacked almost as heavily against you as in the New York State Lottery. He could hurt you: He could laugh at you; he could take one look at your naked aging body and turn away in ill concealed, embarrassed distate. He could turn...