Word: gee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...roller, known for his seat-of-the-pants decisions on programming. Pfeiffer is formal and controlled, a superb administrator, known for her idealism and belief in "high programming standards." Where Silverman's language is direct and often unprintable, Pfeiffer's fluctuates between girls' school ("Oh gosh, gee whiz") and "high IBM" ("I am on a steep learning curve...
...letup--the Vietnam generation turning its violence back on America, the helplessness of women (who do nothing but tremble and bawl, and like Cheryl repeat 90 times, "I'm scared"), the arrogance of power, the sadism built into our society. We are supposed to sit there mesmerized and say, "Gee, I never thought of that," as if we haven't been thinking all these things for a long time. It is no longer enough merely to throw such ideas into the air; it is necessary to say something about them...
...Clay Felker's New York (remember "The Pathetic Lies of Jimmy Carter"?), and the top non-fiction editor at Simon & Schuster wanted him to do a book. It was pickyer-topic time, but a succession of three-martini business lunches with the editor had elicited only a few "Gee, that'd make a great magazine article" ideas. Then, a radio announcer droned through the suds of Brill's quiet shower with a "piddling little item" about some Teamsters' local striking in upstate New York...
...burden of world financial power that Saudi Arabia so far has escaped is worry about the day-to-day fluctuations of its own currency. The Saudi riyal (rhymes with gee doll) is rarely even seen by foreign money traders, and its value essentially is fixed by the Saudis themselves-quite puzzlingly. Though the riyal...
...Gosh! Gee whiz! Golly day! Now how about letting us hear from the thousands of escapees who risked their lives to leave Utopia...