Word: envoi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...traitorous tipping-off of the enemy to our defense secrets." Said Brucker: "That is managed news with a vengeance. It is more in the tradition of Dr. Goebbels than our own." In fact, it reminded him of a World War II parody of Kipling's L'Envoi...
...Mayer seems afraid or unwilling to come to any meaningful conclusions. In his envoi, all he can screw up his courage to say about America's messed-up school system is, "In a sense it is unfair for the communities to send teachers questing for excellence, with a yoicks and a tally ho and a drink at the end. . . In the effort to do their work better than they think they can, people acquire competence; and excellence is nothing more than the most precious by-product in the large-scale production of competence...