Word: canted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...housing. It does not tackle the hard, basic job of building an industrial economy that will routinely produce good-paying jobs and good housing. Doing that job, says Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon, U.S. delegation chief at Bogota, and a thoughtful banker with a refreshing disdain for diplomatic cant, may easily cost $10 billion...
...preciosity generally supposed to be standard swamp-warfare issue for Southern writers. The novel is an account of an awakening to good and evil, and a faint catechistic flavor may have been inevitable. But it is faint indeed; Novelist Lee's prose has an edge that cuts through cant, and she teaches the reader an astonishing number of useful truths about little girls and about Southern life. (A notable one:"Naming people after Confederate generals makes slow steady drinkers.") All in all, Scout Finch is fiction's most appealing child since Carson McCullers' Frankie got left behind...
house larry (clothing-store cant)-a customer who is not buying, just looking...
mayvin (Yiddish clothing-store cant)-a know-it-all customer...
...been some relaxation of the puritanical morality of the revolution: the heroine errs, but is forgiven at the fade. And there is even a mild suggestion that people in Russia sometimes get tired of the canned ideas they are continually fed-the party's production slogans and political cant ("Fascist beasts") come in for some sly kidding. So do the professional women, the emancipated amazons of Marxist society. But one Cranes does not make a summer...