Word: frankfurterism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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She also consults a carton full of rhyming dictionaries, a thesaurus, catalogues of puns and books on analogy. She researches the products and tries to incorporate the manufacturers' sales pitches. Clever titles will give you an edge, advises Mrs. Haley, who has come up with such concoctions as "I...
*He resisted an impish suggestion allegedly made by Gerald Rafshoon, his new communications adviser, to evoke John Kennedy's famed "Ich bin ein Berliner" by declaring in Frankfurt: "Ich bin ein Frankfurter."
As short as Copey himself, Frankfurter seemed to loom over us. He made us feel that a massive obscenity was being perpetrated, not only against the grandeur of the law, which was being fouled in Massachusetts in the name of justice. His voice was that of a Hebrew prophet. It...
But Copey was not content with the shaking-up Frankfurter gave us. We were full of the case but not quite prepared for Copey's next staged event. Several weeks later, Copey ushered in Robert C. Benchley (Class of '12), who wrote themes for Copey many years before. Benchley, a...
Benchley's impact in some ways was more telling than Frankfurter's. The funniest writer in America was suffused with solemnity. His words were simple, edged with incredulous sorrow that the machinery of law, manipulated by prejudiced men, should mangle the rights and lives of two plain people.