Word: distinguishedness
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Once inside, the speedo-wearer’s eccentric, silver-bedecked appearance began to make sense: he served as one of three human spotlights that stood on stage and pointed out distinguished scholars as they were introduced throughout the ceremony.
At a memorial service for a distinguished British journalist a few years ago, an editor said the man could "make words dance." So could Safire. And oh, ye gods and little fishes, how we could do with a few more gavottes and tangos in journalism right now.
Alternative futures call for alternative language. “1984” had Newspeak, “A Clockwork Orange” had Nadsat—each distorted, disorienting vocabulary a warning of possible ills. In “The Year of the Flood,” her most recent...
“He shares the sense of service that so distinguished Senator Kennedy,” Patrick said yesterday during a news conference in Boston. “The interests of the commonwealth have never been more vital or at stake in the Congress today.”
Few people could fill the void left by the death of longtime Senator Ted Kennedy, but Paul Kirk Jr. is the one who will try. On Sept. 24, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick tapped Kirk, a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, to fill the Senate seat left vacant by...