Word: capes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...late 1940s, Dartmouth thought of David Lambuth as a campus character, the compleat English professor in his white suit and black cape, his white beard and black beret, driving his white Packard as absentmindedly as he graded green freshmen. Older generations knew better. Professor Lambuth had a passion for precision in writing; he abhorred the vague and verbose, the prolix and pompous. And in 1923, when his beard was black and his energy abundant, Lambuth compiled The Golden Book on Writing, a 50-page bible that sounded positively Mosaical...
...hold that many of the tributes to J.F.K. are fitting. One of his pet projects, the Peace Corps, for example, could be rightly rechristened the Kennedy Corps. The Kennedy Memorial Library fund in Boston is also a fair gesture. However, Kennedyana, the Kennedy International Airport, Cape Kennedy, etc., are all exceeding the bounds of respect and entering the absurd...
...very disappointed in my fellow Americans when I read that the city council of Cape Canaveral, Fla., is objecting to changing the name of the cape to "Cape Kennedy...
...hardly a murmur. Italian apologists maintain that Lais, who died in 1951, was actually so ungallant as to give his mistress a fake cipher book. Undeniably, however, British Intelligence thereafter proved uncannily adept at forestalling Italian fleet movements, notably in the March 1941 sea battle off Greece's Cape Matapan, where the Royal Navy crippled Italy's numerically superior force...
...attach his name to the already established nearly mocks him. It also removes from our vocabulary curious, colorful words. "Cape Canaveral" was a beautiful name with a fascinating history; "Idlewild" was a splendid name for New York's international airport. "Cape Kennedy" and "Kennedy Airport" bear no real relation to the late President, and are by contrast gray and lifeless...