Word: fraterity
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...feel the self-proclaimed "world's greatest newspaper" was rather the world's gratest. By the time McCormick died in 1955, the list of simplified words, which once ran as high as 80, was already shrinking. Reluctantly, the Trib shot down the sherif and later sank the frater. "Readers," sighs Editor Clayton Kirkpatrick, "wondered if Tribune editors knew how to spell." The latest style book retains only a few relics of the Bennett era, most of them now widely accepted: tho, thru, analog. Prime reason for the return to standard spelling is to bring Trib style closer...
Petronius' story follows the happenstance progress of three impure pilgrims: the freeloader Encolpius (whose name means, roughly, "the crotch''); the effeminate boy Giton. who is Encolpius' "brother" ("frater" to Romans had a double meaning of homosexuality); and Ascyltus. who lusts after Giton. With a straight face. Petronius defended the propriety of his romance...
While he was alive, the Colonel stuck to his simplified spelling with a vengeance. When his own orthographer and key men on the Tribune staff objected to frater, McCormick splashed on their memo one red-ink sentence: "We will keep frater because the Tribune likes it." But now that the Colonel is no longer the Tribune, it is developing new likes and dislikes. "It's largely due to public relations," explains one old staffer. "We are eliminating a feeling of irritation." There is, adds another Trib staffer, "a sort of indescribable feeling of mildness about the place...
Friar Felix at Large, by H. F. M. Prescott. The rough and rocky road to Jerusalem as traveled by 15th Century Frater Felix Fabri and described with Chaucerian zest in his own account; retold in a good night's reading by Novelist Prescott (TIME, April...
Friar Felix at Large, by H. F. M. Prescott. The rough and rocky road to Jerusalem as traveled by 15th Century Frater Felix Fabri and described with Chaucerian zest in his own account; retold in a good night's reading by Novelist Prescott (TIME, April...