Word: call
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yorker Magazine," a pleasant male voice informed us after a single ring. We asked for Mr. Shawn and immediately found ourselves talking with an equally pleasant lady. Though it was nearly noon, she explained that Mr. Shawn had yet to begin his working day but would return our call when he arrived. Sure enough, in less time than it takes to peruse "Talk of the Town," our phone rang and we found ourselves engaged with Mr. Shawn himself...
This is almost exactly the way man masters language: first by articulating the meaningful bits of sound that linguists call phonemes, next by linking these bits into words, and finally by making whole sentences. If this were the result of a learning process, argues Bruner, man's grasp would be forever limited by what he has learned to reach. Yet the fact is that the gift of language carries with it the capacity to braid words into sentences that have never been spoken before. Any normal child...
...sister did, or maybe half, I'd be happy. So long as I've done it on my own." So far, the only person who seems content to see Roz make it on her own has been Barbra herself, who has limited her encouragement to one phone call and a telegram...
...Since 1965, entertaining has been disallowed as a taxdeductible expense for British companies. Tax officials have plugged most other benefit loopholes as well, and corporate perquisites are miserly, especially at London headquarters. In the provinces, some fringes survive. Company mechanics repair the cars of board members; doctors are on call for executives and their families...
...mail mature in his in-box for as much as three months. After aging, he finds, "80% of it doesn't need to be answered." When it does, the reply is sometimes delivered verbally over the phone by a secretary. In the past, it has not paid to call back. Riklis confesses that he was in his office only 37 days last year, even though he "works all the time." Now that he is settling down to more management and fewer mergers, he may be a bit more available...