Word: cymbal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pryor's current preschoolers get the standard nursery treatment: painting, sandbox play, training in manners and cymbal-crashing marches about the room. The difference is that Pryor's kids are in a brave new world. Used to monosyllabic conversation at home, they hear grownups speaking clearly and concretely for the first time. For them, field trips to farms outside Detroit are as exotic as journeys up the Amazon...
Movable Peak. Red China was quick to take advantage of the strained relations between Nepal and India. Last fall Mahendra and Giri traveled to Peking, where they got the full treatment-little flower girls at the airport, a cymbal-and-gong concert, repeated toasts to eternal Chinese-Nepalese friendship. Peking proved amiable in demarcating the border between Red-run Tibet and Nepal, and even accepted a splendidly Oriental compromise on the question of who owns Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain. Foreign Minister Giri explains that both sides agreed that Chomolongma (the Tibetan name for Everest...
...lexicon of the dust jacket, writers do not write novels any more; they write major novels. The phrase, once the reviewer's last cymbal crash before his closing chord of adjectives, has become a generic tag, like "short story" and "hot dog." Thus cold frankfurters are cold hot dogs, not cold dogs. Accepting the publishers' ploy, critics must now confront a new literary phenomenon: the insignificant major novel...
...parenthetical asides, but though he was not trying to, he produced some of the most exalted passages in all Christian literature, e.g. (I Corinthians 13): "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal...