Word: ostrichized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although widely accused of an ostrich-like refusal to admit that anything is wrong and "plain incompetence right down the line" (as one principal puts it), the administrators are protected from dismissal by tenure agreements or ironclad contracts. How to get rid of inept administrators is one of his greatest problems, says Board President Hopp. "They are impossible to move," he explains. "You have to catch them committing rape on the steps of city hall...
...leave some trace of his art on every passing manifestation of fashion." The tumbling, rosy cupids and tiny pastoral scenes with shepherds in knee breeches that are the cliches of rococo chinaware decoration were largely Boucher's doing. He painted on fans and carriage doors, snuffboxes, escritoires and ostrich eggs. And when Louis XV put Boucher in control of the state tapestry factories at Beauvais and Gobelin, he brought about the last flourish of grand-scale European weaving. No designer since Boucher has managed to raise tapestry to that pitch of worldly exuberance and erotic charm...
...still 9% per year. To slow it, Heath this month announced his Phase III-to a national chorus of "Let's-wait-and-see" doubts. Sometimes indeed it seems as if the whole country is suffering from what Author Arthur Koestler calls the "Struthonian Effect" -or the Ostrich Syndrome...
...Koestler derives Struthonian from struthio, Latin for ostrich...
...Nonetheless, it has long been called Lakha Manta (The Gateway to Hell) by the Indians, for reasons they are unable to explain. More tantalizing still, Michanowsky found that among some lowland tribes this humdrum part of the sky is known as the Region of the Chase of the Celestial Ostrich, a bird revered in Indian mythology. According to Indian lore, the ostrich was driven across the sky by two voracious dogs and finally killed in the constellation Vela. Michanowsky also learned of some possible connections between Indian star lore and the site of the annual orgy. In Indian dialects...