Word: phrase
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moreover, that would tempt Jordan's King Hussein into joining the negotiations. Sadat's proposals, which he discussed with President Carter at Aswan two weeks ago, still envision self-determination (though not specifically statehood); in the declaration of principles, the Egyptians are ready to accept a phrase such as "a solution of the Palestinian problem in all its aspects." Cairo is also prepared to accept a lengthy transition period (probably five years) for the West Bank, hoping that the region would gradually develop permanent links with Jordan. During that period, Israeli forces would be withdrawn and replaced...
UNTIL THE TORRENT of civil rights activities in the late sixties, Harvard had no minority recruitment program at all, and very few minority students. A decade later, with the phrase "reverse discrimination" very much in the air, Young says he is anxious about the kinds of political pressure that led to--and could conceivably put an end to--programs like this one. Indeed, if Young's fears are justified, they could go a long way toward explaining certain otherwise puzzling aspects of the recruitment picture...
...were, "Madam, I'm Adam." Since then, language has been like that palindrome: the optimists can read its messages forward, the pessimists backward. In 1977 American English gave both groups plenty of opportunity. The air was saturated with recent coinages ("reverse discrimination," "mainstreaming," "ten-four, good buddy"). Some phrases enriched the nation's tongue; many impoverished it with jargon and meaningless terms. For words are like prescription lenses; they obscure what they do not make clear. This year the Washington Star had no trouble finding examples that blurred. In a section labeled "Gobbledygook," the newspaper offered a daily...
...creators do not attempt to palm off their Manchurian Candidate plot as something ripped from today's flaming headlines. The gimmick- a group of Russian deep-cover agents in the U.S. are mind-conditioned to sabotage military targets when they get a phone call repeating a triggering phrase- is seen from the start as a forgotten pre-détente plot that an unreconstructed cold warrior (Donald Pleasence) manages to set in mo tion a decade too late...
Unfortunately, the statement proves to be a dangling phrase. In the mechanical effort to push Tony toward a catharsis, Wexler loads the script with a series of stagy and unconvincing plot incidents: a suicide, a gang rumble, a gang bang. By the time Tony takes a soul-searching all-night subway ride to arrive at the story's bogus happy ending, the movie has thrown away its subject to lull us with sentimental bromides about Finding Oneself. We might as well be at Roseland...