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...whole shied away from a suggestion that it monitor regional human- rights abuses, along with any notion that it should move toward trade-bloc status. The group even rejected a change in its awkward name -- Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans calls it "four adjectives in search of a noun" -- rather than label itself a "community." Reason: the term suggests the kind of integration that Asian nations say they want to avoid. And besides, said Hong Kong Financial Secretary Hamish Macleod, "People are a little wary of possibly being dominated by the U.S. I think the majority view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Four Adjectives in Search of a Noun | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

Birthday: The main noun of the phrase. A compound word, made of two nouns, the first of which, "birth" serves as more an adjective, describing the more nounly "day," indicating the day on which someone was birthed...

Author: By W. CINQUE Henderson jr., | Title: A Little Rhetorical Magic | 2/9/1993 | See Source »

This compound noun is then given a modifier: Happy, Quite obviously an adjective meaning joy, pleasure, balloons of hope, warm fuzzies, two kinds of ice cream, finding your skate key...It is less a simple description than a sort of prophecy, full of hope...

Author: By W. CINQUE Henderson jr., | Title: A Little Rhetorical Magic | 2/9/1993 | See Source »

...interested to read your article of January 11 concerning the new co-ed social club "Philos." I wonder if its membership realizes that "philos" is, in Greek, a masculine adjective. Might I suggest "philon," which is the neuter of that adjective, or "philotes," which is a feminine noun meaning "friendship." Robert A. Oden...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Co-ed Club has Male Name | 1/27/1993 | See Source »

...academe, and its sinful neologisms. Scientists have every right to spend all their time lolling in cafes thinking up fresh words: all those spanking new particles and objects have to be called something. But the sewage of cultural theory and philosophy is a pernicious influence, taking your average happy noun ('problem'), and disfiguring it with a meaningless suffix. Take a few more such words; apply prefixes at will; stir boldly for a decade; before long, an entire generation will have on its tongues an assortment of unaesthetic and utterly meaningless words. And there, comrades, lies the rub. Their complete uselessness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: For the Moment | 12/10/1992 | See Source »

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