Word: phrase
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...finger-wagging article in the party journal Red Flag, "we must attach importance to evidence, investigations and studies." Meanwhile, some long-imprisoned dissidents have been freed, most notably Li Yi-che, jailed in 1974 for protesting a lack of "socialist democracy and legality" in the regime. Tellingly, that very phrase is now in vogue in Peking...
...sure can turn a phrase...
...impulse. In any case, yellow journalism has not left us--it has only gone underground, and is handled more subtly. In short, though possessing immense power and unprecedented popular diffusion, the press is losing its healthy diversity, its latitude, its freedom of expression in the truest sense of the phrase...
Skeptics may argue that amending the footnote and throwing away some Latin abbreviations hardly amount to an effective attack on the problem of scholarly gobbledygook. Perhaps not, but Van Leunen's strictures may spur a few professors and scholars into reflection. The practice of footnoting every phrase or idea that does not fit into the text quickly be comes habit-forming.5 So do many of the tics that help make so much academic writing so impenetrable. Such habits should be broken...
...eking out a marginal existence. Donny spends the opening minutes of the play expounding his philosophy of life and business to Bobby, a nervous, denim-clad teenager who serves as Donny's sometime-assistant and partner in petty crime. Donny's theory is somewhat simplistic, summarized in the phrase "Action talks and bullshit walks." The point of this diatribe seems to be that everyone must look out for themselves. Stuart Burney's Donny seems painfully aware of this maxim, finding it distasteful, perhaps, but true. Burney lends an air of realism to his character; his Bonny is like thousands...