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...Communist powers now seldom indulge in public name-calling, thinly disguised ideological salvos still break the sullen silence. Recently Chinese dialecticians disinterred an ancient Marxist villain, Karl Kautsky, Austrian contemporary of Karl Marx, who was a moderate and Social Democrat-among the worst epithets in the Communist lexicon...
...retailer's lexicon, "soft goods" means anything with a short life-clothes, accessories, costume jewelry. Soft goods take up far less store space than "big-ticket" hard goods such as washers or TV sets. They also turn over much faster and are generally more profitable because people-particularly women-are willing to pay more for that intangible called "fashion." But the world of soft goods is a pink jungle in which stores compete savagely for the best styles and stylists, and a great deal depends upon cozy relationships built up over the years between the manufacturer's "vendors...
...Osagyefo's growing Messiah complex. Apparently Nkrumah really believes that he is the "Saviour of Africa." To associates, he said recently: "I am like the man who walked into Jerusalem 2,000 years ago and got the people to follow him." A newspaper has published a new lexicon of titles for Nkrumah that make royal rankings seem pale by comparison. Among the titles...
Because Mr. Angus Wilson is, among many other things, an acute chronicler of the Welfare State, he has incurred the unfortunate label of "traditional novelist"--the nastiest epithet in the current critical lexicon. Mr. Wilson's novels are by this means arbitrarily damned to comparisons with the matronly, jovial and encyclopaedic shades (respectively) of George Eliot, Charles Dickens and John Galsworthy...
...long past time that modern business practice was applied to the important matter of the author's image ("image" in Madison Avenue's lexicon means what the public thinks about a person or corporation when it is not thinking very hard). Up to now, authors' images have been left, hit or miss, to book jacket eulogists and to the authors themselves...