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Nearly a decade ago, thoughts of an international legion of devotees and a sprawling hometown finale hadn’t even begun to materialize. The name “Dispatch” hadn’t yet entered the American musical lexicon. But, tucked away at Middlebury College, “three hackers who used to play sports and had guitars in their hands,” according to Corrigan, had only begun to appreciate their combined talent, then performing under the name “One Fell Swoop...
Last year, I wrote that the American left is losing a struggle for language, as conservatives masterfully redefine the political lexicon. Now, going into an election year, many don’t see a “message” in the rhetoric of the Left’s titular leader, the presumptive Democratic nominee, John Kerry. Perhaps that message would be clearer if it were framed in a vocabulary that seeks to reclaim the meanings of words that have been poisoned by years of insincerity and extremism. Establishing a new vocabulary is not the point; we need to take...
There's a good reason that the terms birdie and eagle are part of the golf lexicon and the word peacock is not. "Let's be honest: golf clothing is pretty dorky," says Craig Tanner, CEO and founder of Urban Golf Gear (UGG), an "athleisure" apparel brand that combines performance technology with urban fashion flair. Tanner, who started the company in 1997, figured there would be a bigger audience for golf clothes when he saw Tiger Woods score a victory in just his third amateur tournament in 1996. "I knew he was going to go pro, and I knew golf...
...trouble is, of course, that there is no obvious replacement for “girl” in our lexicon. Britney neatly summed up the problem when she moaned that she was not a girl, and not yet a woman: No term for the middle ground has gained common currency. Seeking to remedy this, I proposed some options to a focus group consisting of my roommate...
There's a good reason that the terms birdie and eagle are part of the golf lexicon and the word peacock is not. "Let's be honest: golf clothing is pretty dorky," says Craig Tanner, CEO and founder of Urban Golf Gear (UGG), an "athleisure" apparel brand that combines performance technology with urban fashion flair. Tanner, who started the company in 1997, figured there would be a bigger audience for golf clothes when he saw Tiger Woods score a victory in just his third amateur tournament in 1996. "I knew he was going to go pro, and I knew golf...