Word: aver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aver that London is in the midst of a renaissance, that its theater is "in a second Elizabethan era." Nonsense. While it may be the world's pleasure capital, London smacks more of Las Vegas desperation than of Renaissance gusto. Compare the solitary John Osborne with Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson and Webster. The contrast is humbling...
...gubernatorial campaign, though, Percy has been sticking strictly to state and local issues. He has nailed Kerner for shortsightedness in planning state aid to schools (which runs about 20% of school costs v. a national aver age of 40%), for failure to cope with Chicago's notorious crime record, and for overall governmental inefficiency, with special emphasis on Illinois' outmoded tax programs. One recurrent Percy theme concerns the need for stronger state government. "For many years now," he says, "we have been hearing complaints about the erosion of states' rights and states' power, and the accompanying...
...Boxes. In many cases, prices have risen beyond all reason. Land along Zurich's famous shopping street, the Bahnhofstrasse, is now worth $1,000 a square foot - making it possibly the world's dearest land. The aver age cost of housing land in the London area has jumped from $24,640 an acre in 1951 to $173,040 an acre. It now takes $185 per square foot to get front age on Munich's Marienplatz, and hill top land outside Bonn that went for 10 per square foot five years ago now brings $4.65. On Spain...
...Contract. Elizabethan literature roils with legalisms-Jonson's plays are filled with far more legalese than Shakespeare's-but the Bard's characters have as effective counsel as any. Henry IVs plotters do not just plan to split their loot (the realm); like law clerks, they aver that "our indentures tripartite are drawn" and "sealed interchangeably." In Sonnet 35, the poet acts against himself as a friend's defender: "Thy adverse party is thy advocate." In Sonnet 46, a fair lady is partitioned-her lover's heart the plaintiff, his eye the defendant. In Henry...
...Running is our game," said Laker Coach Fred Schaus, and he told his young team to chase the veteran Celtics (aver age age: 29) off the floor. But if the Celtics were aging, they were graceful about it. Bandy-legged Bob Cousy, 34, the matchless playmaker, whipped sidearm passes the length of the court to launch Boston's fast break. Towering (6 ft. 10 in.) Bill Russell, 29, swept in rebounds like an angry mother plucking her child from the arms of a too-attentive stranger. Sam Jones poured in points-29 the first night, 27 the next...