Word: litmus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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FOUCAULT'S PENDULUM by Umberto Eco (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; $22.95). Eco has woven together a novel that is even more intricate and absorbing than his international best seller The Name of the Rose. Beneath its endlessly diverting surface, this book constitutes a litmus test for ways of looking at history and the world...
...agree with the majority that rent control is the litmus test issue for progressive (or less euphemistically, liberal) candidates in Cambridge races...
...they have been for several years, rent control and development are the litmus test issues for candidates seeking election to the council...
Readers will have to take sides here, or struggle to find a compromise somewhere in the middle ground. For beneath its endlessly diverting surface, Eco's novel constitutes a litmus test for ways of looking at history and the world. Casaubon, the narrator, recalls himself as a younger man, when he was willing to take facts at face value, to be what he calls incredulous. He recognizes and scorns another manner of thinking: "If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that...
Some observers even predict that the issue--which prompted a full week of campus protests in April--could be a litmus test in the upcoming council elections...