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Words also tend to be devalued by the new erotica. Three centuries or so ago, William Shakespeare or John Donne could convey passion, poetry, disgust and concupiscence in words with artful undermeanings that shocked none. Nowadays, a few greatly gifted writers can effectively employ the familiar quad-riliterals for dramatic or comic effect, but they tend to lose their value through overuse. As George Orwell observed 22 years ago, "If only our half-dozen 'bad' words could be got off the lavatory wall and onto the printed page, they would soon lose their magical quality." That process is well under...
...announced in Washington that HEW Secretary Robert Finch had promised not to cut off federal assistance without a personal investigation. This assurance, passed on to the hospitals, caused the settlement to collapse. Said McCord in a one-sentence letter to the union: "Please be advised, that the offer to employ the twelve discharged workers made June 9, 1969, is now withdrawn as of Thursday, June...
...that we believe government support is indispensible to experimental research and has not diminished the integrity of this university is not to say that there is no basis for concern. New research projects that employ many people merit university-wide consideration even if no new departments or faculty appointments are involved...
...reported on his mission to goad Asian trading partners, chiefly Japan, into restraining their textile exports. The outcome: no deal. Japan sends nearly $400 million worth of textiles yearly to the U.S., and this has sorely hurt whole towns in the South. They live off their textile mills, which employ many unskilled Negroes...
...married, desert his raffish calling and go square in a New York advertising firm. His boss, Walter Burns (Robert Ryan), the managing editor of the Chicago Examiner, dresses like an Edwardian dandy and has the ethics of Genghis Khan. There is no device that he will not employ to hang on to his ace reporter...