Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...adult Negroes, religion is present. A speaker knows quite well that he can arouse his audience by invoking a familiar tone or a key word. Almost mechanically the audience's "that's right" follows any reference to the Lord, or to a Biblical legend, or any catch phrase like "do or die" "that's right...
...hours day, few people have time to worry about anything outside their personal problems: food, entertainment, and a little extra money. Unless a group such as the NAACP sets out deliberately to arouse the community, not many of these Negroes would even think about taking the risks that the phrase "fighting for equal rights" implies
hard edge is the phrase for painters who prefer a defined line to splatter and splash. But it's still abstract...
...Cohen speaks of the "drift toward the departmental" of General Education courses in science. Clearly he interprets that phrase to mean that departmental preoccupations are invading these courses. But what if, as I hope, the opposite is true, and the attitudes of General Education are invading the departments...
...follows: "What is more, Dean Monro and Mr. Harrison implied that in themselves exclusive norms as a basis of association are neither bad nor good." The word "particularly" in the second sentence of the fourth paragraph should read "particularistic"; and in the second sentence of the fifth paragraph the phrase "historical air" should read "historical...