Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Item, A Title: Usually a "catchy" drinking-hall phrase like Mud-in-your-eye, or Here's-looking-at-you-keed, or Wotcher...
...easy phrase can encompass the Commonwealth's diverse but like-minded, vague sounding but specific, loosely linked but powerfully woven partnership of more than 700 million people on six continents. Last week Canada's John Diefenbaker and Australia's Robert Menzies warned that by ending the Commonwealth's preferential trading agreements, Britain would cripple the Commonwealth itself. But there are many other concrete bonds between its members. Among them...
...After his death, poets and critics were quick to speak of him as "the greatest innovator in modern poetry," as a man who perfected "the idiom of American common speech." Some placed him beside Thoreau and Whitman in "the pantheon of American letters." Cummings would have disliked the portentous phrase. He was not the sort of artist who can easily be put in any resounding literary hierarchy...
...enough to gain teen-agers entrance to many nightclubs, the Cafe Bizarre, a Greenwich Village coffeehouse that serves soft drinks, sawdust and beat poets at reasonable prices, aims for "armies and armies of young people," but refuses to label itself a teen-age club "because the phrase has a smell to it." Chicago's Fickle Pickle, a dark, clean rathskeller-type cafe, is a favorite of the 18-21 set, features nightclub-type entertainment for the price of one or two nonalcoholic drinks per person...
...instead of exceptions." Even years later, when he and his men are caught and tortured by the Japanese in Malaya, he counsels them, ''Hang on to your lives," wondering as he does so if he should have said "courage," then swiftly dismissing the thought with a snappish phrase: "But that is all fable." Stuffed Symbols. Despite this, Conway finds himself teased, almost obsessed, by his childhood's most sensual memory-the vision of an Indian summerhouse full of perfectly stuffed birds of paradise, those rare and fabulous creatures about which it was once believed that because they...