Word: canted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twelve Irish M.P.s were hauled from their seats by police when other efforts to eject them failed. In an attempt to make debate more seemly, Speakers of the past have banned "grossly insulting language" and the use of such words as villain, hypocrite, murderer, insulting dog, swine, Pecksniffian cant, cheat, stoolpigeon and bastard. In the 1880s, one Charles Bradlaugh was refused his seat because he was an avowed atheist. When Bradlaugh tried to take it anyway, he battled ten Bobbies to a draw until he fainted from his exertions...
...spot in Washington" to corner for Massachusetts all possible Federal grants and programs, again a commendable proposal but one which Volpe put into practice nearly four years ago. Bellotti would establish a state Economic Research Council, a fine liberal proposal in itself, but one that sounds more like liberal cant when contrasted with his general apathy toward economic matters. Finally, Bellotti has great faith that future economic growth will fill the treasury's coffers without increased tax revenues. Regrettably, he fails to explain why industry will flock to a state with astronomical property taxes or how, if these now vital...
...August, Faulkner demonstrated how the preoccupation with race can make it tragically impossible for a man to know who he really is, and dramatized the mindless virulence of white reaction to miscegenation. Joe Christmas, the book's hell-ridden hero, is a remarkably modern figure: in the psychological cant phrase of 1964, he suffers an "identity crisis" because he thinks he is part Negro successfully passing for white. Compounding his agonizing psychological fracture, Joe Christmas takes for his mistress a woman who embodies the Southerner's hated notion of the "outside agitator." Joanna Burden is a spinster...
What makes The Best Man so good is the professional tone maintained in all of the photography, direction, sets, and, especially, the acting. Margaret Leighton as Russell's wife and Shelly Berman as an old army pal of Cant-well give brilliant performances along with Lee Tracy, in his recreaton of his Broadway role of the dying, crusty ex-President whose endorsement is sought by both candidates...
MORE on the positive side is a statement that will be read to a TIME staffer this week. The Albert Lasker Medical Journalism Awards Committee is presenting one of its annual $2,500 awards to Medicine Writer Gilbert Cant for the cover story on surgery (May 3, 1963). It is the second Lasker award he has won; the other was for the virology cover story (Nov. 17, 1961). The committee cited the surgery story and the accompanying twelve pages of color pictures for "graphically portraying the skill of the modern surgical team . . . assessing and putting into perspective a range...