Word: aptness
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...General Patton's remark to Reader Breger (who is himself a cartoonist, creator of the much put-upon "Private Breger") was an apt comparison, even if it was not a sound complaint. Dashing Captain Bruce Bairnsfather went to France in 1914 with Britain's Royal Warwickshire Regiment, saw his cartoons-featuring a character called "Old Bill"-become immensely popular with soldiers and civilians alike. For a Bairnsfather World War I classic, which could have served as a prototype for Mauldin's World War II Willie and Joe cartoons...
Bingo is particularly suited to the working-class British housewife. Unlike her U.S. counterpart, she is apt to have no hobbies, recreations or interests of her own; she does little social, welfare or community work, and frequently does not have a single book in the house. Her husband is notoriously uninterested in togetherness, prefers to spend his evenings in the local pub. Said one bingo organizer: "A social revolution has taken place. There is now something just as respectable for women to go to as a pub or club has long been for their husbands. No one would call...
Billed as the most significant such study since the 1908 Aldrich Commission report that conceived the Federal Reserve System, the report of the Commission on Money and Credit is apt to prove far less of a landmark. Where the Aldrich Commission inspired a major reshaping of U.S. banking controls, the new report recommends only minor adjustments...
...know I can get in to see people in New York more easily because it says I'm from Texas on my business card. They want to see what a Texan looks like." But at home in Dallas or Houston, today's Texas tycoon is more apt to wear a Brooks Brothers suit than Texas boots; though his poke may have started in oil (and gained by the 27½% depletion allowance), much of it now comes from electronics, real estate, insurance or shipping. And for the new Texan, Texas is no longer big enough. Ranging across...
...dumb acceptance of the course system is a sort of dull marriage, then academic abandon (to use an overworked but apt image) can be a series of love affairs: liaisons with historical and literary figures, with movements past and present, with the seashore, with "great ideas," with cities (like Durrell), with mathematics and music.... At times, this process is seemingly unproductive, and prominent among the metaphors of academic abandon is "gestation"--an unseen but strongly felt growth. Like rebellion against the grade system, such metaphors can serve either as excuses for not working or, in the ideal case of academic...