Word: draggings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...learn the manner to glide with the vowels, and to drag the voice gently from the high to the lower notes," advised Pier Francesco Tosi in his book Observations on the Florid Song. "Let him take care that the higher the notes, the more it is necessary to touch them with softness, to avoid screaming. Let him take care that the words are uttered in such a manner that they be distinctly understood...
...motivation for trying to do something about Arkansas' schools is the hope that the state will be able to attract new industry by producing graduates with necessary skills. Declared Clinton in September: "Do you believe that God meant for us to drag up the rear of the nation's economy forever?" Although the state has some excellent schools, others fare poorly on national achievement tests. A primary reason is lack of funding: for years Arkansas has remained at or near the bottom of the 50 states on expenditures for each of its 432,000 students. Last year Arkansas...
...emotional health, there have been no successful romantic comedies in more than a year. It says something dour about Broadway, its playwrights and its audience that the last laugh-till-you-cry hit was Torch Song Trilogy, Harvey Fierstein's savvy sudser about a not-so-gay drag queen. You may begin to wonder if there are any heterosexuals out there who both feel deeply and write funny...
...blood on foreign soil; when a Republican President could inflame humanists simply by waving nuclear sabers at the Russkies. Ladies and gentlemen . . . the Seventies! All together now: "Up on your feet,/ Press all your points,/ Eat Germ of Wheat,/ Toke on your joints,/ Ev'rybody do the Doonesbury Drag...
This aside is utterly gratuitous, adding nothing to the essay or to the understanding of its protagonist. It is fashionable these days to equate sexual performance with success in other fields, but surely it is inappropriate (and rather mean-spirited) to drag in the old war-horse here...