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...director of the Office of Fiscal Services. As Ortega put it so succinctly in his essay on Concord and Liberty, the word 'religio' does not derive from religare, to bind--that is, man to God. The adjective, as is often the case, has preserved the original meaning of the noun, and religious stands for scrupulous, not trifling, Conscientious. The opposite of religion thus would be negligence, carelessness, indifference, laxity...
...Administration policy of detente with the Soviet Union is under increasing fire as the political season advances, so last week President Ford decided to provide a little semantic cover: he dropped the word. It was not Republican coinage anyway. The French noun crept into common usage among Western European diplomats in the '60s to describe a relaxation in tension between East and West. Henry Kissinger deliberately avoided using the word for several years because he felt it smacked of sentimentality (the literal French meaning of detente is relaxation or easing) and was also associated with West German Prime Minister...
Ricks pointed out the careful way Dylan chooses his words. William Zanzinger twirls the cane around his "diamond ring finger" here Dylan uses a noun as an adjective a device that may be rejected by the Iowa Poetry Workshop" but that makes for evocative poetry. The rhymes in the second verse, about William Zanzinger, are all masculine that is, the rhymed syllables an stressed In the third verse which recounts the life of Hattie Carroll, the accents are feminine kitchen-children; table-level...
While Kaplan's dialogue generally rings true, her descriptions sometimes seem labored. Most annoying is her virtual addiction to placing two adjectives in front of every noun...
Dingo is a dirty word in the Australian vocabulary. As an adjective, it connotes extreme cowardice. As a noun, it refers to a species of wild dog, usually yellow and about the size of a German shepherd, whose bite is worse than its bark.* In the 19th century, before any organized attempts to eradicate the dingoes, they killed about 500,000 sheep a year, making them Australia's public enemy No. 1. As late as the 1920s, Anatomist Frederic Wood-Jones expressed the national attitude toward the killers. "To say anything in favor of the hated wild...