Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...party unsure of its mission, rallying around its President unethusiastically and telling the nation to vote for him primarily out of the fear of his oppenent, is hardly apt to inspire the electorate this fall. But whatever happenes in November, it should be a gross mistake to count out the Democrats: witness all this obituaries of the Republican Party written at regular intervals from 1964 to as recently as 1976. The Democrats are still the majority party, a party open to bewilderingly diverse groups who somehow pull themselves together for one more election, and then another and another. Said Vice...
Often enough, the story lines come together in an apt, compact resolution to a wondrously complex plot. Toward the end of the past season, for example, the twine of stories looked hopelessly snarled. Cliff Barnes, now taking his revenge as an assistant district attorney, had Jock indicted for the murder, 28 years earlier, of Southfork Ranch Hand Hutch McKinney. But voilà Digger Barnes, on his deathbed, confessed to Miss Ellie that he had shot Hutch for planning to run off with Digger's wife Rebecca, who was carrying Hutch's child-Pamela...
...feathers and turquoise-inlaid headbands), yoke shirts, off-the-range Levi's, brass- or gold-buckled belts and high-steppin' boots of alligator or snakeskin. Some real rootin' tooters tote leather holsters (empty) and cartridge belts. The lady on the Marlboro man's arm is apt to resemble Pocahontas, in a fringed T shirt, multicolored headband, squash-blossom necklace, beaded deerskin bag with dangling mink paws and -the essential accessory-white, fringed moccasins. Some squaws without reservations go so far as to wear war-paint makeup...
When Lebanon's Christians and Muslims are not fighting each other, they are apt to be warring among themselves. Last week, as various Muslim groups skirmished with each other in West Beirut, a far more important fight took place between Christian militia armies in East Beirut and along the coast to the north of the capital. The Phalangists of Pierre Gemayel virtually wiped out the forces of their chief rival, National Liberal Party Leader (and former President) Camille Chamoun, thereby emerging as the dominant Christian military group in Lebanon...
This trend demonstrates more emphatically than most intellectual realignments the way the past alters under the gaze of new generations. Children raised on the stultifying history textbooks of the past-especially those of the '40s and '50s-are apt to think of the past as a mass of impermeable and indigestible facts: a huge and useless object, as lifeless and impassive as a moonscape. But the past actually teems with an almost irrepressible life, especially in a nation as widely literate and elaborately documented as the U.S. The past constantly achieves renewals and transmogrifications as political symbol...