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...Goldwater himself, he let it be known that he was changing his strategy, would no longer discuss "nitpicking issues," from now on would couch his campaign in broad terms of the virtues of conservatism as opposed to liberalism-which in his lexicon comes out as "Socialism...
Freudian expertise has long since reached down through the cocktail party into the children's playroom, but there are still enough happy, balanced, unsavvy five-year-olds around to justify this narrative lexicon of Freudian terms...
...first Baron Beaverbrook has apparently banished the very word mortality from his private lexicon. "I am an old man," he said recently, sensing a fell presence outside the door, "and I should be ready...
Vibration is usually a dirty word in the space age lexicon. The delicate instruments of missiles, aircraft and spacecraft function best in a smooth environment, and scientists are continually searching for means to eliminate the least little bump. But deliberate vibration has its uses too, and last week, in widely separated laboratories, engineers were putting man-made jiggles to work. Applications...
These cultists often display unconcealed, and somewhat exaggerated, contempt for entertaining groups like the Kingston Trio and the Limeliters. Folk singing is a religion, in the purists' lexicon, and the big corporate trios are its money-changing De Milles. The high pantheon is made up of all the shiftless geniuses who have shouted the songs of their forebears into tape recorders provided by the Library of Congress. These country "authentics...