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...Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn...
...Candor Pander. Never trust anyone who begins a sentence, "My dear friends, let me speak frankly to you . . ." Veracity these days is rare enough that its presence need not be advertised with self-congratulatory words like "candor" and "honesty." For while the truth may still set you free, it remains a treacherous path for those who would rather be elected than liberated...
...only did we lose dear relatives in these deaths, but also the unrecoverable histories, manners and knowledge that they carried with them. Not a week later the Harvard community was devastated by the suicide of a student and the loss of a brilliant mentor taken far before her time. I grieved for them also...
...North Korea, which outsiders have mockingly dubbed "the world's last socialist theme park." It has had no Khrushchev, not even a Brezhnev, never mind a Gorbachev. It has only its founding dictator, Kim Il Sung, who is 80 and failing. "The Great Leader" has designated his son, "the Dear Leader," heir to the throne. But a succession struggle may already have begun...
...Thesaurus" is a mouthful; it does not roll trippingly on the tongue. Nor do its plural forms, the highfalutin thesauri, or thesauruses, which sounds like a prehistoric creature. Thesaurus means treasury or storehouse, but nobody calls Nicholas Brady Secretary of the Thesaurus or says, "Dear, pack up your winter underwear and lock it in the thesaurus...