Word: canted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rustic, Pompous, Boom and Jazz periods, he notes it was at one time fashionable "to be dull, to be opulent, to be stuffed, to be bored." Society eventually relaxed and dinners speeded up from two hours to 55 minutes. Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish "injected candour where before she had found cant," and laughter "replaced an owlish gravity of demeanour...
...Cardinals are, in the cant of the sports world, an unknown quantity--meaning that we don't know anything about them. Nonetheless, the contest should be a tough battle--as is every game in which the varsity quintet is involved...
...Weeks before the American Heart Association convened in Los Angeles and the American College of Surgeons gathered in San Francisco, Medicine Editor Gilbert Cant had scanned their scheduled programs and read abstracts of important papers to be delivered. He, and other medical reporters, also benefited from advance briefings in lay language by key scheduled speakers, and had a chance to cross-question them. And so, from California, Cant cabled four stories-a controversy over freezing the stomach to lessen ulcer pains, the results of a remarkable Red Chinese surgical operation, the use of a pump to relieve a diseased heart...
Singer of Assurance. While the first half of the opera focuses on Lulu as predator, the second half marks her for prey. Symbolically, she is destroyed by the moral cant of the bourgeois mind, which condemns in others the vices it refuses to acknowledge in itself. Lulu's actual death is horrifying; she is disemboweled by Jack the Ripper in a London garret. At this event, Berg's music erupts in an agonizing holocaust of atonal sound, the musical equivalent of the howl of the blinded Oedipus...
...program had its dull stretches of vintage cant, it also had some sharp disagreement, as when Monnet insisted to Eden that Britain should give up control of her nuclear bombs to NATO. Ike jumped in, supporting Eden's no-no position, saying: "It gets to be a matter of principle around here...