Word: hayakawas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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California is first with a lot," says a media maven for San Diego Mayor Pete Wilson. Right now, the state is first with a lot of candidates to succeed Republican Senator S.I. Hayakawa, 75, who is not seeking reelection. When voters go to the polls next Tuesday to choose party nominees for both the Senate and the Governor's mansion, as many as 13 names will be on the G.O.P. primary ballot as candidates for the Senate, and seven of them, including Wilson, are running seriously...
...this year: used just so, in all but sweats with class bias. The emotion-heavy words that are easiest to spot are epithets and endearments: blockhead, scumbum, heel, sweetheart, darling, great human being and the like. All such terms are so full of prejudice and sentiment that S.I. Hayakawa, a semanticist before he became California's U.S. Senator, calls them "snarl-words and purr-words...
...have been honored with formal labels. Word loading, after all, is not a recognized scholarly discipline, merely a folk art. Propagandists and advertising copywriters may turn it into a polished low art, but it is usually practiced-and witnessed-without a great deal of deliberation. The typical person, as Hayakawa says in Language in Thought and Action, "takes words as much for granted...
...angriest response to the decision came from Reagan's fellow conservatives. Republican Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa accused Reagan of breaking the statutory U.S. defense commitments guaranteed by the Taiwan Relations Act of 1979. California Senator S.I. Hayakawa charged the President with "kowtowing to Peking." Said Senator John East of North Carolina: "I'm very troubled by this Taiwan thing. It's very disconcerting." Jesse Helms of North Carolina, Reagan's most militant and influential critic on the right, suggested that aides were prompting Reagan to "imitate" the "disastrous foreign policies of Carter and Kissinger...
...What with Harvard looking around for a new president, perhaps it's not the best time for my name to be splashed all over the Crimson." But like it or not, Brewster's name has been mentioned (if not splashed) practically everywhere else. With the possible exception of S.I. Hayakawa, he is the best-known college president in America. With dozens of colleges looking for male leaders, his national reputation has followed three of the four steps traditionally ascribed to the rise and fall of a movie star: I "Who's Kingman Brewster?" II. "Get me Kingman Brewster...