Word: invention
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cleans and Dirties be damned. The Rolling Stones didn't invent the bawdy song: it's been around for some time. As for LSD and pot, they are what's happening, and it would be surprising if pop songs didn't take account of them. Rock 'n' roll didn't write the script, it only made the scene. But the main thing is that rock 'n' roll is the first original development in popular music since jazz. Groups like The Beatles and The Stones display a phenomenal melodic inventiveness...
...place is Fire Island, that swinging, 33-mile-long sliver off Long Island's southern shore. Denizens of such communities as Ocean Beach, Robin's Rest, Ocean Bay Park and Davis Park have established such a free and easy way of life that they have had to invent a new language to describe it. GROUPERS are not fish, but young people who have pooled their assets to rent a house together for the season. There are BOY HOUSES and GIRL HOUSES but the MIXED HOUSE is fast becoming the most popular arrangement. Seasoned groupers insist on VISITING PRIVILEGES...
...language, says McNeill. He is equally impressed by such metonyms as "eyeballs in" and "eyeballs out" (describing extreme conditions of acceleration and deceleration, respectively), and he approves of neologisms such as "rockoon" (a rocket launched from a balloon). Unfortunately, metaphors, metonyms and neologisms-and the creativity required to invent them-are limited. They constitute only about one-eighth of the entries in official NASA diction aries of space terms...
...which seems every bit as long as it is. Its narrative pace is numbing, its style is deafening, its language penny dreadful. All the characters whirl like dervishes, especially Dirk Struan, a kind of Scottish superman who can borrow $5,000,000 in silver ingots from an Oriental tycoon, invent binoculars, and corner the world supply of cinchona bark, all without breathing very hard. Well, almost. His Scots accent wavers a bit under stress: "Damned if he'll get away with it, Will! He'll no get awa' with...
...created by the present plan. "Substantial," that absurd, undefinable term, would be banished from the system. Freshmen could all have a chance to express their wishes without mulling over whether or not they had "substantial" reasons. At worst, the present requirements encourage freshmen who have no real reasons to invent them. The system would provide more opportunity for both Master and student choice, in itself a good thing. Choice should be valued for its own sake, whether it is choice of a field concentration or choice of a time to get up in the morning. Simply because the old system...