Word: maxims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Imagine a somewhat insecure Bertolt Brecht writing a kind of Man of La Mancha about Maxim Gorky, the Russian Revolution and its after math. Add to this some of the folk flavor of Fiddler on the Roof and you get a rough approximation of what a strange and ambitious amalgam is represented by this musical now at Manhattan's American Place Theater...
Reeves, 38, a contributing editor of New York magazine, is not just another political reporter. In a journalistic specialty known for apple polishing, he has made his way by following the old maxim that the best way for a reporter to look upon a politician is, as a misanthropic editor once said, "down." "I do have a bias in writing about politicians," Reeves admits. "I don't feel any great obligation to recount their many and varied personal and professional virtues. That is what they, or the taxpayers, are paying for in the salaries and fees of press secretaries...
...earthly paradise, a resort complete with a luxury hotel and detached villas, two of the world's best golf courses, an Olympic-size swimming pool, a discotheque and a restaurant that served Mexico's finest French food, prepared by Emmanuel de Camp, once a chef at Maxim's. Post seemed close to achieving his ultimate vision: an ultra-exclusive preserve where the powerful and wealthy could retreat to cavort and contemplate...
...maxim time is money had a double meaning: first, it was an injunction against idleness; second, it was a view of time as something methodical, a set of divisions into hours and minutes whose very measure could regulate a calculus of utility and the allocation of energies. It was a view that, in its own way, was radically new. As Lewis Mumford observed, "The clock, not the steam engine, is the key machine of the modern industrial age." After consulting Gulliver on the function of his watch, the Lilliputians came to the conclusion that...
...leverage energy and pry important budgetary considerations and control out of our fiscal and administrative procedures." This is a W.C. Fields newspeak, the earnestly pseudoprecise diction beloved of bureaucrats, who imagine that its blind impregnability will give their ideas some authoritative heft. In fact, it only confirms the Confucian maxim: "If language is incorrect, then what is said is not meant. If what is said is not meant, then what ought to be done remains undone...