Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thanks for the high-camp comic relief, "On Running New York" [Nov. 1]. The counterpoint of describing Lindsay laughing over a column on "pseudo intellectuals," and then having him quote Dickens and Yeats was inspired. For those of us who have heard hizzoner try to articulate without a script, this new-found eloquence came as a real surprise. Add a wife who sounds the dinner bell in French, sherry for lunch, and a picture of our boy John in tails at the Met, and you have the ingredients for a clever burlesque of J.F.K. and Jackie...
Streeter's reasoning involving "the difficulties for this child when he gets to be 16 or 17 and begins to date" is the most preposterous I have ever heard in my life! How can he take himself seriously? Does he not realize that the here and now, especially for a small child, are more important...
...when you walk the streets of Lagos, you have to look hard for signs of war. True, between radio and T.V. shows sinister-sounding announcers say, "Challenge anyone doing anything suspicious. Save precious lives. Save Lagos from destruction." But everyone has heard those lines so often that they've become the butt of innumerable jokes...
...pithy putdown remains the most effective way to silence a heckler-provided, of course, he is reasonably civilized and relatively quiet. A classic was the riposte by John Wilkes, an 18th century libertine and libertarian, who heard the Earl of Sandwich roar at him in Commons: "I am convinced, Mr. Wilkes, that you will die either of a pox or on the gallows." Wilkes parried: "That, my lord, depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your principles." Today, Prime Minister Harold Wilson can also hold his own. When a heckler shouted "Rub bish!" during a 1966 election rally, Wilson...
...unproven, the Harvard anthropologist points out that the teeth of elephants, animals uncommon to the area but regularly used for military transportation by Alexander, have been unearthed in the top of the mound. And in a nearby village, young boys are often called "Iskanda," a name almost never heard elsewhere in Iran. Iskanda, explains Lemberg-Karlovsky, means Alexander...