Word: dwellings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those who stay behind dwell in a Latin version of Dickensian squalor. Managua is a succession of seedy shantytowns, abandoned buildings and lots where cows, goats and horses forage. Twice a week water is cut off, and rotating power blackouts add to the capital's desolation. In the countryside some farmers live well off their own land, while a few miles down the road naked children from a dusty village drink from and relieve themselves in the same brown stream...
...texts using masculine terms for humanity, the editors took greater liberties. Not even works of Methodism's co-founder and greatest hymnodist, Charles Wesley, were spared. In his Hark, the Herald Angels Sing, "pleased as man with men to dwell" becomes "pleased with us in flesh to dwell." In Christ the Lord Is Risen Today, "sons of men and angels say Alleluia" is recycled as "earth and heaven in chorus say Alleluia." As for other hymns: God of Our Fathers is now God of the Ages; Good Christian Men, Rejoice metamorphoses into Good Christian Friends, Rejoice; and O Little Town...
...readers like him. He is a former professor of philosophy, carelessly dressed, with watery blue eyes and a fleshy, houndlike face. He is still doing penance for his 1987 performance, having vowed not to smoke another cigar till the Dow Jones average tops 2722. He tends to dwell on his losses, even though he started out with $8,000 in 1977 and by taking his own advice has boosted it to $422,000. Charles Allmon, a rival newsletter editor, suggests that Frank is a ringer, a "riverboat gambler" suitably disguised by self-deprecation and a digressive academic manner. Frank replies...
Bush repeated his earlier accusations that Tower had been unfairly treated during his losing campaign for confirmation, but expressed an eagerness not to dwell on the rejection. He said Democratic leaders in the Senate "had given their word" that they were willing to cooperate with the new administration...
...performance, Barry is still popular with black voters. "People are quick to forget all that he's done for us," says public- housing activist Kimi Gray. In racially divided Washington, white residents of comfortable neighborhoods in the city's northwest seldom stray into the areas where most black citizens dwell. Many blacks believe that whites are following a devious "plan" to regain political control of the District by embarrassing black officials. The mayor has survived by playing on that fear and, like any good political boss, distributing favors to his constituents...