Word: lexicon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lexicon of the dust jacket, writers do not write novels any more; they write major novels. The phrase, once the reviewer's last cymbal crash before his closing chord of adjectives, has become a generic tag, like "short story" and "hot dog." Thus cold frankfurters are cold hot dogs, not cold dogs. Accepting the publishers' ploy, critics must now confront a new literary phenomenon: the insignificant major novel...
That Old Sprachgefühl. The result may pain purists, who will even find four-letter words ("usu. considered vulgar") in the new lexicon. They appear now because the most cultured (urbane, polished) Americans are used to earthier speech in fiction and drama. According to Merriam-Webster, even ain't is "used orally in most parts of the U.S. by many cultivated speakers." Nor could the editors fail to dig cool cats who make stacked chicks flip. Without drips and pads and junkies, who bug victims for bread to buy horse for a fix, the dictionary of 1961 would...
Things came to a head at a meeting of satellite leaders in Moscow last winter. Hoxha called Khrushchev a "revisionist," one of the worst epithets in the Communist lexicon, since it means not going by the book. An enraged Khrushchev shouted back: "Comrade Hoxha, you have poured a bucket of dung on me, and you will have to wash...
...diplomatic relations, plus the U.S. decision last week to shut off all travel to Cuba, makes it harder to shunt agents back and forth. Castro's decree of the death penalty for all counter-revolutionary activities-including mere possession of a bottle of gasoline (in Castro's lexicon, that equals one Molotov cocktail)-"is having a great effect," says a Frente leader. "Underground work is much harder now. People are no longer willing to hide revolutionaries because it means death...
Obviously, SANE is more likely than the pacifist groups to change society's attitude toward disarmament. It doesn't yet seem to know how. Even "commitment"--the most recurrent word in the lexicon of those who speak on the problem--becomes irrelevant when one realizes what it has meant in the past. For commitment to labor or to anti-fascism meant, in most cases, little reflection and a great deal of action...