Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anyone trust Dick Nixon? In Ohio he called Nixon "one of the military-industrial-complex men who has little regard for peace." Later, he accused his adversary of being the "Number One doubletalker of all time." Both men implored their followers to "sock it to 'em," a phrase that sounded particularly ludicrous coming from middle-aged politicians of national stature...
Within "group journalism" (a phrase he sometimes used but did not approve of), Luce gave his staff an extraordinary degree of independence. "As an editor," writes Elson, "he did not like to lay down guidelines and rules; he understood that creative writers and editors worked better if given wide latitude. He was often disappointed in their work, but he accepted the risk as part of the price of aggressive journalism...
...parody. He knows all the drug-age neologisms and uses them with a purposeful heavyhandedness. A "mind blow" that comes off his tongue awkwardly and belligerently, with quotations marks around it, reminds him that he is not, after all, native to the generation which minted the phrase. It also hints to his undergraduate audience, or the part of it which uses the words scarcely more gracefully than he, that neither are they. The play is brilliant, ceaseless, and for those too shy, too polite or too slow to answer back, intimidating. More dismaying still are his long silences and gestures...
...Boogie" that the group does early in each show. The format is simple: Beck plays the melody of the line "Mary had a little lamb" solo, and then the rest of the players crash in with a few bars of straight percussion. Silence again, and Beck repeats the phrase. Each time, however, he does it a little differently and uses different elements of the guitar. Once he plays it entirely on the frets, once using wah-wah pedal, once slapping the strings with his open palm. The improvisation gets more and more complex and yet the melody is still recognizable...
...Russians have a special phrase to describe their relationship with the Eastern European Communist countries within their sphere of influence. It is sotsialisticheskoe sodruzhestvo, which, translated into English, has a reassuring and almost beneficent ring: Socialist Commonwealth. Since the invasion of Czechoslovakia, however, the term has acquired a new and ominous meaning. It has come to reflect a departure in Soviet policy that some people suggest should be called the Brezhnev Doctrine, after Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, whose brutal and brusque attitude toward the Czechoslovak leaders has made him a symbol of the Soviet Union's belligerent mood...