Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Everybody, including the President, calls him Reg, (At General Electric they say the name is pronounced with a hard g, as in God, not a soft g, as in Jesus.) In those private phone calls and White House meetings with Jimmy Carter, Reg Jones unfurls his ideas about taxation, inflation and creating jobs in America...
...funny. This lapse was intentional. Auden saw humor as incidental to light verse; far more important, he claimed, was the quality of common speech that all classes of society could understand. Milton wrote for the educated elite; the light-versifier hummed to a simpler, more general rhythm and turned his hand to things like this...
...give a rap about poetry for the masses. His aim, he writes, was to put together "a reactionary anthology," and he has succeeded. Defining light verse is like breaking the idea of a butterfly on the wheel, and Amis wisely avoids stating last words on the subject. But his general categories are small enough to exclude Chaucer, Skelton, Dryden, Pope, Burns and most of Edward Lear ("whimsical," Amis says, "to the point of discomfort"). Amis wants poems that raise "a good-natured smile." He argues that "light verse need not be funny, but what no verse can afford...
...historical figures with fictional characters. The portraits of the authentic personae are intriguing, but the question recurs: Are they real? Bobby Kennedy blackmails Brady's son into planting a bug in Anselmo's office. Young Brady protests that "it's not legal." Replies the Attorney General...
...courts seem to them to be trespassing on the sanctuary of press freedom; the impact of such decisions is sometimes milder than expected. The Supreme Court ruled in 1972, for instance, that journalists who observe a crime have no absolute right to protect confidential sources, but judges have generally been reluctant to send uncooperative reporters to jail. In fact, after last week's decision, Deputy Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti said that the Justice Department would draw up procedures limiting federal searches of newsrooms and would seek subpoenas before search warrants. He could not guarantee, however, that local judges and police...