Word: commonical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ridiculed and threatened with reform so often and so roundly as Britain's House of Lords. Harold Macmillan called it "a mausoleum." Winston Churchill went him several better, denouncing the Lords as "one-sided, hereditary, unpurged, unrepresentative, irresponsible, absentee." Plans to emasculate the upper house are just as common today as they were in Gilbert & Sullivan's lolanthe, in which the Lord Chancellor complained: "Ah, my lords, it is indeed painful to have to sit upon a woolsack which is stuffed with such thorns as these." Anachronistic as it may be, the House of Lords demonstrated last week...
...wastebasket on his head while a companion cried: "I nominate this trash can for national secretary." Workshops at the convention suggested a variety of possibilities, ranging from a concentration on "self-defense and internal security" to "organizing G.I.s" and "forming chapters at backward conservative campuses." If there was one common new goal it was a drive to expand S.D.S. influence in the nation's high schools. The Madison, Wis., chapter will try to do so this summer by publishing a state-wide underground newspaper aimed at teenagers, sending a "radical rock-'n'-roll band" to tour youth...
...organizations have much in common. Both adhere to a Calvinist theology and are cautiously conservative on such social issues as black equality. The Southern Presbyterians were formed at the outbreak of the Civil War; membership in the church is almost entirely white, and its pastorate is largely traditionalist in outlook. The Reformed Church-many of its oldest congregations are still known as Dutch Reformed-is strong in the East and Midwest, also has a predominantly white, middle-class membership. If the union is approved, the logical next step would be merger with the 3.3 million-member, liberal United Presbyterian Church...
Chief among those difficulties are the balance of payments deficits plaguing key trading nations. As a result of France's crisis, a Common Market study indicated last week, Paris is likely to run payments deficits of some $1 billion through next year. Even so, France has reserves of about $5.6 billion, presumably enough to ride out a deficit for some time; moreover, at week's end, it further bolstered the franc with a request for an additional $140 million drawing from the IMF. Britain is headed for an expected deficit of at least $500 million...
...each other far more than their makers would care to admit. Both preach to the converted; both assume that moral indignation is sufficient material for a scenario. And both leave the viewer with the conclusion that in a war movie, as in a war, the first casualty is usually common sense...