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Sadow, though, by no means has a pessimistic view of dissipated youth. Quivering with pride on the eve of yet another pitched battle between Harvard and Yale he offers this advice to tomorrow's contestants: "'In the bright lexicon of youth,' said Richilieu, `there is no such thing as fail.' I hope the Harvard varsity and freshmen remember that on Saturday...
...entries in the bulging lexicon of international diplomacy are so freighted with emotion and precise, almost lapidary meaning as the code words and phrases dealing with the Arab-Israeli dispute. As Jimmy Carter has learned, a slip in the use of the Middle East's special shorthand can cause rumblings round the world. Some key terms...
Eric Partridge, to coin a phrase, has done it again. At 83, the scholar of slang and connoisseur of cliches has produced his 16th lexicon, A Dictionary of Catch Phrases. Its 3,000 entries are liberally defined as sayings that have "caught on and please the public." Here are the phrases that trip resoundingly off the tongue: "Don't just stand there-do something!"; "Attaboy!" Here are the immortal quotes: "Don't fire till you see the whites of their eyes"; "All quiet on the Western front." Plus those '60s buzz words: "Cool it!"; "Tell it like...
...totally lacking in joy," "unable to form a healthy relationship with anyone" and "incapable of making a firm commitment based on personal conviction." (The latter is fortunate, Abrahamsen says; if the man had any strongly held ideals, he would have been much more dangerous.) Abrahamsen fairly raids the professional lexicon of disorder in describing Nixon: he is variously tagged as obsessive-compulsive, self-hating, hysterical, masochistic, doubting of his masculinity and even psychopathic...
...months this season, home is the hotels and motels of America. Lanky, high-domed and bespectacled, Tennstedt can be a vertiginous sight on the podium. He will perch precariously on his toes when all hands are playing furiously, or do a deep knee bend during tender moments. In his lexicon of body English, an avian flap of the elbow is as meaningful as a sword thrust of the baton. The fluid gestures may be idiosyncratic, but they rarely fail to communicate. Says Tennstedt: "The musician must have the feeling that what the conductor wants is absolutely right. The musician must...