Word: jannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...found myself in total agreement with Mr. Kanfer's Essay on the dubious state of our language [Jan. 1]. Though I'm only 25 years old, I find it almost impossible to communicate with my 19-year-old brother, who spouts forth such unintelligible phrases as "icked out" and "icked up." (Yes, he says there is a difference between them...
...purposes of Carter's China move may well have been to gain some geopolitical leverage on Moscow, he apparently felt confident that Moscow would not regard it as an anti-Soviet shift. Shortly after he surprised the world in mid-December by granting Peking full diplomatic recognition as of Jan. 1, Carter said reassuringly: "Our new relationship with China will not put any additional obstacles in the way of a successful SALT agreement and also will not endanger our good relationship with the Soviet Union." The President was too optimistic...
...ease in a time of turmoil. Carter, to be sure, was in the midst of digesting all the disturbing news abroad; he was preparing for the opening of the 96th Congress this week and conferring with advisers on the State of the Union address that he will deliver on Jan. 23. Even so, the usually talkative President seemed strangely becalmed...
Safire has learned to combine reporting with denouncing, and rarely writes thumb-suckers, which is what columnists call reflective pieces. A classic example appears in the Jan. 13 New Republic, written by Henry Fairlie. a transplanted Englishman who often combines good sense and fatuity. On the dubious premise that trends can be divided patly into decades, Fairlie proclaims that this is a Decade of No Survivors, meaning that no institution came out of the '60s intact. After gloomily surveying the current cultural barrenness, he speaks of the Decade with No Audience and concludes even more gloomily with the Decade...
Delta House (Jan. 18, ABC, 8:30 p.m. E.S.T.). In a typical display of initiative and daring, all three networks have sched uled fraternity-house sitcoms for 1979. Two of the entries, CBS's Co-ed Fever and NBC's Brothers and Sisters, are rip-offs of National Lampoon 's Animal House; ABC's Delta House is a spinoff. In the competitive circus of TV, where arcane distinctions mean everything, the ABC show has the decided edge. Delta House may not quite be Animal House, but at least it is the one genuine forgery...