Word: exhortation
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...peasant economy into a modern industrial state in a single generation. In the meantime we, whose position is fundamentally decent and honorable, have so mismanaged ourselves of late that we must now try to prove that we love peace as much as the Russians . . . On the one hand, we exhort the world about the virtues of the U.S. On the other hand, most of our official dealings seem to be in terms of military threats, military alliances and military values...
Actually each successive Five-Year Plan (piatiletka) is a set of production targets which the state planners then exhort the Russian people to attain by superhuman effort. The sixth piatiletka (1956-60) is more than usually superhuman: in the next five years heavy industry must be up 70%, pig iron up 70%, steel up 51%, coal up 49%, oil up 100%, building up 52%, consumer goods up 60%; in agriculture grain production must increase 80%, while labor efficiency on state farms must rise 70%, on collectives 100%. Incentives are a calculated feature of piatiletki: 55 million workers will...
...Laughter, in turn, can make for bitter or even bigoted criticism. Rodman, aware of the danger, does not hesitate to belabor some people in his own party. Among others, Rodman sideswipes A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford, who last summer took full-page ads in six Manhattan dailies to exhort against modern art and supine art critics (TIME, June 20). Hartford, he complains, "was asking that art define truth rather than express it-and then defining it himself in the narrowest terms . . . To demand of art a specific 'moral answer' is just as unreasonable as to insist, as some...
State or Seat? To find the best illustrations for each word, he combed his own library, plowed through stacks of borrowed books. But he soon realized that to be a judge of correctness was no easy job. "So commonly," he noted, "but not always, we exhort to good actions, we instigate to ill we animate incite and encourage indifferently to good or bad. So we usually ascribe good but impute evil, yet neither the use of these words nor perhaps of any other in our licentious language is so established as not to be often reversed by the correctest writers...
...fracture 'em." The publishers buy such songs in the hundreds each year, and record-company presses compound the fractures by turning them out with the regularity of automatic cooky cutters. The multitude of dins is largely devoted, of course, to love, and mostly in songs that court, exhort or contort...