Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Burgess seems to imply, the embodiment of his imagination, then maybe Burgess will stop writing novels. Or perhaps Enderby will undergo some kind of reincarnation and reappear as a literary critic. His first task should then be to denounce the novel of his real-life counterpart, and --if The Clockwork Testament is any indication of Burgess's potential for the future--Enderby should advise Burgess to stop writing altogether
Most of the frantic fun of the evening came from watching the backstage counterpart to these on stage strategy "huddles," which last about a minute during an interlude of piano improves. I knew vaguely what I was in for from the start: while one or more of the actors spin off their impromptu concatenations of wit through either a song or some kind of personal encounter (in Confucianist, "Sun Yat Moon," might lecture on vices to some Process people in the Square), their colleagues are "in the pit" furiously scribbling down rhymed verse, puns, or plotty narratives for the upcoming...
...Catholics are part of the Lausanne fellowship, although some people consider the burgeoning Pentecostal movement in the Roman Catholic Church and its small counterpart in Eastern Orthodoxy as Evangelical...
...after the jolts administered to U.S society by Watergate, recent publications in this country have produced something of an American counterpart to Orwell's essay. Like Orwell's response to World War II, these essays--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.'s"Politics and the American Language,"Henry Fairlie's "Arise, Ye Prisoners of Jargon," and Edwin Newman's Strictly Speaking--are responses to the effects of political events on English as written and spoken in this country. But also, like Orwell, these writers realize that changes in the condition of language are due to much more basic causes than political changes, that...
...oasis of sunny prosperity in the turbulent eastern Mediterranean. Nearly six months after the end of the fighting, Cyprus today is a wrecked dream-its airports still closed, its economy shattered, one-third of its people refugees in their own land. Greek Cypriot Leader Glafkos derides and his Turkish counterpart, Rauf Denktaş, had hoped to resume their interrupted peace talks during Christmas week but were unable to agree on a basis for further negotiations. TIME Correspondent Erik Amfitheatrof recently visited the troubled island. His report...