Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Next to his use of homelife as a political tool, the most important feature of Al's rhetorical grab-bag is his odd combination of humor and bombast. Once, when he was trying to deliver a speech on nothing in particular at the beginning of a council meeting, Councilor Al asked aloud if anyone was listening to what he was saying. (He hadn't been reelected mayor yet; everybody listens to the mayor). When there was no reply, Al moved that the meeting be adjourned. Since it was Monday night and there was a football game on TV starting...
...interest in women's studies has grown, so has the presence of men in the Library. King says 10 to 15 per cent of the library's users are now men, utilizing the resources either for women's history in particular or to supplement a more general history. The most requested papers recently have been those of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a nineteenth century feminist theoretician who believed economic independence to be the foremost need of all women. But perhaps more important, in a study King did recently of the Schlesinger Library's manuscript users, she found four subjects--education...
...pigs and people lying in the rushes in the end of the house create the atmosphere of the novel throughout. The pigs, especially, make atmosphere; one chapter describes a near-fatal smothering of the O'Coonassa family due to the smell of the pigs, "and a certain Ambrose, in particular...
...nothing to guide me but the music. The music leads you across a no man's land of what can be right or wrong on the stage." That could be any stage director making the usual bow to opera in general and the fraternal order of composers in particular...
...surprising how universal is the agreement that in the forthcoming debates, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter should be cross-questioned by those paragons of impartiality, journalists. In more paranoid times, anchor men were accused of covertly liberal inflection, and the rise of David Brinkley's eyebrows came under particular suspicion. John Chancellor once locked himself in his bathroom and tried to read a piece of copy before the mirror in ways that would give it different slants. He says he never finished the experiment because each time he broke up laughing...