Word: naming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most absurd objection was that "the story itself seemed dated." It is fantastic to try to imagine eliminating novels and plays from our literature on the criterion of datedness. Oedipus Rex and Hamlet, to name only two, would have to go immediately...
...always somewhat distressing, as the opening of the baseball season rolls around, to see writers all over the country scurry to their typewriters and proudly name the New York Yankees as their carefully considered choice to win the American League pennant. Such action on the part of loyal New York sports-writers is, of course, understandable, but to have this prediction spread to every corner of the United States is quite another matter...
...power, in accordance with the ideals of Jewish life . . . Most fervently, therefore, do I herewith pronounce the Jewish confession of faith: Shma yisroel adonoy elohenu adonoy echod [Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is One]. Boruch shem kvod malchuso I'olom voed [Praised be his name whose glorious kingdom is for ever and ever...
...tentatively planning to call its compact car the "Invader." Both Ford and Chrysler, unknown to each other, had tentatively decided on the "Falcon." When they found this out, they had an amiable discussion; now Chrysler is thinking of giving Ford the bird and finding another name...
...some principle by which the names have been changed to protect the guilty, Leon Trotsky, whose real name was Lev Davidovich Bronstein, in this novel is called Victor Rostov. But there is no doubt that the book is about the chess-playing, intellectual Commissar of War (1918-25) who lost his long struggle for power with Stalin. Trotsky became the grand heretic of a religion whose god is the state; it was his peculiar hell that he never ceased to believe in the religion that had made him its principal devil...