Word: imprimatur
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many contemporary philosophers would disagree, and that is largely why, as Adler says, "the Establishment for the most part has ignored me." Yet Adler has never needed their imprimatur for priming non-philosophers with the complicated ideas of Western thought and watching them love it. Says he: "Philosophy is everybody's business...
...ears -and eyes-these days only for her beau, Philippe Junot, a boulevardier and sometime insurance broker who is descended from Napoleon's aide-de-camp, General Andoce Junot. The couple met a year ago and have been together ever since. Junot, 36, has even received the imprimatur of the palace: an invitation to share the royal box at a tennis championship match in Monte Carlo. "Of course I love her, who wouldn't?" asks Junot. But both the suitor and the princess discount rumors of marriage. "There's so much...
...words, along with some 125,000 quotations that illustrate their origins* and usage. Browsing through its 1,282 pages is like rummaging through a kind of verbal attic of folkways and attitudes that have shaped the language over the past half-century. The editors have placed their imprimatur on "McCarthyism," "McLuhanism," "Maoism" and "Naderism." They have acknowledged a menagerie of latter-day elves and monsters, from "Hobbits" (Novelist J.R.R. Tolkien's small, furry earth dwellers) to "Nessie" (who lives in Loch Ness). Trade names like Levi's, Muzak, Nescafe and Jell-O have officially entered the English language...
...Nobel announcement, Bellow remarked characteristically, "I'm glad to get it. I could live without it." His fellow countrymen appeared more pleased. Not only had the Nobel Committee picked a man whose literary works many Americans have read in the original, its choice had put an international imprimatur on an opinion that more and more U.S. readers and critics have come to share: Saul Bellow is the most accomplished home-grown writer at work in America today...
...deal sets a bad precedent for the important negotiations coming up in the rubber industry (where contracts expire this week), construction and autos. Having given a kind of official imprimatur to the Teamsters settlement, Ford-and Usery, who will be involved in all the negotiations-cannot convincingly argue that any other union should accept a smaller one. Instead, the message of the Teamsters settlement is just the reverse: the Administration does not want any long strikes disrupting the recovery in an election year and is prepared to countenance-or maybe even lean on employers to accept-wage and benefit boosts...