Word: everlastingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"We are being subjected to a tyranny of numbers," complained Oregon Republican Mark Hatfield, head of the Senate Appropriations Committee. "Computers have overtaken the people, and the everlasting bottom line has supplanted good judgment." Hatfield's impassioned complaint, amid Senate debate on the budget, was partly right. In a...
Cohen supplies a few "Soviet-style" ploys of his own: hanging up the phone in midsentence, for example, giving the impression you were cut off and thus gaming a little additional time to think things over. Then there is the "nibble": leading your opponent deep into negotiations, so that he...
Profits from the souvenir trade are expected to top $438 million by July. Insurance companies are also doing a brisk business, agreeing to underwrite more than $33 million in policies covering losses that would result from a change in wedding plans. When the estimated 600,000 to 1 million extra...
In this scene, Randolphe again rises to the expression of earlier lines, bringing the original forcefulness back into the role. Staggering from one side of the stage to the other, Randolphe conveys the helplessness and terror of one who ignores repeated warnings from angels who had urged him to repent...
The Fourth of July speech today is seldom the shapely purple cloud of bombast that it once was. That style is nearly extinct. The old eagle-screaming rhapsody, the Everlasting Yea, survives mostly in wistful, or merely empty, references to Jefferson, in Smithsonian pageants or in the elegiac drone of...