Word: br
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...literary sugar-coating on Vercors' pill. For pill it is, Vercors is not so much a novelist as a moralist, and Sylva is not so much a novel as a fable-an edifying tale designed to explore the question that has been bothering 59-year-old Jean Brüller ever since he took the pen name Vercors and wrote the book that made his reputation: The Silence...
...York University, Merriam-Webster's Ph.D.-proud editors toil in a Georgian edifice in Springfield, Mass., that looks more like a college library than a company HQ. They began collecting a new batch of commonly used words before their last edition came out (complete with a misspelling-Brünnehilde...
...Brünnhilde-that competitors ignorantly cribbed). They used a worldwide network of "word watchers"-avid amateurs with Sprachgefühl (feeling for speech), who constantly peruse novels, menus, labels, ticket stubs, and even small-town news paper accounts of obscure murders. The head of Merriam's own shipping department, for example, is the part-time scholar who netted piggyback, as used in railroad freight hauling...
...Earthly Daemon." Paint them he did, with a vehemence and crash of color that soon won him the esteem of fellow painters. He was invited to join Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and others in a group of younger revolutionary artists called die Brücke (the Bridge), who had set up shop in 1905 in an empty Dresden butcher's store. A loner by instinct, he quit them after a year and a half, afraid that togetherness would dilute his grim, self-imposed sense of artistic mission. Similarly, he shunned the trail-blazing Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) circle, although...
...Br-a-ang! Br...