Word: canting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Max Gissen, 75, chief TIME book reviewer from 1947 to 1961, whose careful, thoroughly informed judgments and skepticism of cant or inflated reputation helped build what Alistair Cooke called "the most influential book page in the country"; in Weston, Conn...
...cover more than five years? Must infants be so swaddled? Need adolescents feel guilt? Before televison cameras, on hundreds of lecture platforms, in thousands of lines of print, Margaret Mead emphatically doubted it. Flouncing her cape, thumping her cherry-wood walking stick and shouting, "Fiddlesticks!" (her battle cry against cant), she became one of those native oracles, full of cranky common sense and hearty exhortation that Americans cannot resist...
...this is cant. Michael Jordan of the U.S. team pretends not to see the basket, then lunges toward it, as if stumbling on the court. Suddenly he leaps, glides, hangs in the air. The ball is cradled in the palm of his hand at the side of his head. Still flying, he flicks his wrist forward, as if waving hello, and the ball sets off on a flight of its own. When the hoop is scored, Jordan is airborne still. Why are we pleased...
Ralph: Nothing at all, my pet. Fresh cant is an important component in America's never-ending quest for novelty. What is high monogamy, by the way? I assume I have been a notably low monogamist all these years...
...loyalty, promises, secrecy, and truthfulness, and in weighing modes of conduct and life plans." I hope it will be helpful to them, as I hope it will be helpful to those scholars who will not be deflected from the search for Veritas because they are seduced by currently fashionable cant that covers up unpalatable particular truths by parading its preference for lofty, but unexceptionable, general truths