Word: invention
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...archaeologists also found several little blobs of copper, identical in shape and weight with the earliest know gold and silver coins of Lydia. They may prove to be the earliest units of small currency and thus of importance in finding out how the Lydians happened to invent money...
...native U.S. talent for "reducing complex concepts to starkest abbreviations." From O.K. to K.O., Americans have long coined initial-born words. But what began as playful sport has turned into contagion and verbal smog (smoke and fog). Just to describe the new rash of alphabetease, linguists were forced to invent a new word: acronym (from the Greek akros for tip, onyma for name), which first appeared in dictionaries in 1947. Most insidious breeders are public relations experts, adept at spawning the punch word that sums up an organization, then, to fit its letters, turning out an often fatuous full title...
Campalans is the invention of a Spanish writer and critic named Max Aub, 58, who five years ago became disgusted with novels ("all tired") and biographies ("all false"), decided to invent a new form combining the two. In the process Aub painstakingly wove one of the most ingenious art hoaxes of recent years...
...decided that Campalans would be a Catalan born in 1886, the fifth son of a peasant family. Adding details, he had "J.T.C." run away from home, pursue an actress to Barcelona, meet Picasso, invent Cubism ("It's simple. Before, pictures were seen from the outside: now they are seen from the inside"), explore Abstractionism, then abruptly disappear from Paris in August...
Brief Nightmare. As Gann showed in his bestsellers The High and the Mighty and Twilight for the Gods, he can tell a story. And this time, he need not bother to invent a plot. He simply tells his experiences with the authority of a survivor. Gann started flying the airlines in the pre-World War II days, just when the job began to seem respectable. "Agents even urged line pilots to buy insurance." But he brushed too close to disaster too often; he realized how the unexpected can upset an actuary's figures. He remembers a ham-handed clod...