Word: lucid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...genuinely want it to stop the method adopted hardly matters." "Political chaos," he continued to stress, "is connected with the decay of language . . . one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end." To that end, Orwell devoted his life. His work endures, as lucid and vigorous as the day it was written. The proper way to remember George Orwell, finally, is not as a man of numbers-1984 will pass, not Nineteen Eighty-Four-but as a man of letters, who wanted to change the world by changing the word. A word that surely requires alteration...
...comedy than with romance--scenes that are not maudlin tend to be pathetic. There is a pronounced effort to make the cast look as unappealing as possible, presumably to add a comic touch and to scoff convention. "Who does your wardrobe, Quasimodo?" Jason asks Phoebe in one of his lucid moments...
...lifers' supposed "consistent disregard for the ultimate well-being of the mother or the fetus." Ms. Idelson is completely right in saying that the mother's "right" to an abortion and the fetus's right to life stand in contradiction my compliments to her for such a lucid observation. Simply put, anti-abortionists, for logical reasons, have chosen to favor the fetus's right over the mother's. To say, however, that we therefore "discount the concerns of the living" is an act of journalistic or editorial hyperbole. Of the two parties involved, the mother and the fetus, only...
...subjects that interest Begin, according to a Cabinet minister, he is lucid and alert, but on topics that do not engage him he can be "apathetic." Begin has occasionally had such spells before, however, and he has always managed to snap out of them. Says a Western ambassador, pointing to his head: "It hasn't changed him up here. He's still got it up there...
...correct style." Kafka's pathological concern for style was so extreme that only a few tales were published in his lifetime. But the meticulousness that made him a dangling, indecisive figure in life produced modern myths in a prose like shards of glass. It was meant to be lucid, and it was intended to cut. It has drawn blood for 50 years...