Word: canting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...medical expense should not be reported to the OWCP." Those who believe that Babel can be located somewhere south of Sacramento have derived aid and discomfort from Richard Rosen's new volume, Psychobabble. On the downhill arc of the Me Decade, Rosen split an infinitive and savages cant as he collects "psychological patter, whose concern is to faithfully catalogue the ego's condition." Examples: "Very laid back," "I know where you're coming from" and "Go with the flow." Rosen was abetted by Novelist Cyra McFadden (The Serial), a resident of Marin County, where, she claims, such...
...disease have become rare among ethnic Hawaiians and part-Hawaiians, and leprosy can be treated so successfully today that newly identified patients soon become noncontagious. The savage isolationism of the past has been replaced by an enlightened open-door policy. To observe the striking changes, TIME Contributor Gilbert Cant visited the leprosarium where Damien labored. His account...
Over the past few years its stolidly trendy Swedish director, Karl Pontus Hulten, has emitted much politic cant about how Le Pompidoglio would not be a museum in the traditional (read "elitist") sense, but rather a kind of cross between a people's palace and a pinball machine-a transcultural, interdisciplinary omnivorium. The real question was how the place might work as a museum. On seeing "Paris-New York," one wishes the question had not been asked. The show is a curatorial botch...
...York Democrat: "We are paying $7.5 billion for green coffee beans [this year], when we paid $1.5 billion for the same amount last year. That means the American consumer is increasing foreign aid to coffee-producing countries by $6 billion-without congressional approval." Perhaps-but says Fausto Cantù Peña, director of the Mexican Coffee Institute: "The increase in coffee prices may do more for the peasants of Latin America than the entire Alliance for Progress...
While impotence can be a byproduct of the 250,000 prostate operations performed annually in the U.S.-crucial muscles and nerves must be cut in the more radical procedures-sexual function is preserved in most cases. Cant cites the encouraging experience of a 62-year-old friend: after his operation he was able not only to urinate easily but his sexual frequency soared from a painful once a month to a highly satisfying two or three times a week...