Word: floridation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...undecided" voters was giving pollsters and politicians the jitters. But that was only half the puzzle: those voters who came into direct contact with Jack Kennedy or Dick Nixon seemed to be impressed. Each candidate was working out a campaign style uniquely his own-and as different from the florid behavior of yesteryear as farm subsidies are from free silver...
...call it insensitivity when he attaches to a simple melody all the florid decorations of a style five hundred miles and years away. One may call it lack of imagination when he treats a powerful song of death as casually as if it were a nursery rhyme. But one becomes aware with increasing discomfort that unerringly to perform such malalignment of styles with such flashy banjo technique Mr. Seeger must be a much more calculating man than one wants to hear simple music from...
...good either for Democrats generally or for Church himself. The paths of keynote-speech glory lead but to the political grave, it seems. Republican Arthur Langlie and Democrat Frank Clement, the 1956 keynoters, are both politically jobless. And Democrats might well worry a bit about Frank Church's florid oratorical style, ominously reminiscent of the embarrassingly overwrought tirade that Tennessee's Governor Clement gushed forth in 1956 ("How long, oh how long, America?"). Perhaps as a hint of things to come. Church last week managed to pack two cliches into a single sentence. He intended to "pull...
...Long strives to teach composition, and she begins composition at a logical starting point. Instead of sugary essays on "What I Did Last Summer,'' her students begin with two weeks of literary logic-causation, connectives, transitions. What earns a good mark is order and clarity, not florid language. It is the principle once stated by Ernest Hemingway: "Prose is architecture, not interior decoration...