Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...abiding American, in Nixon's phrase, is "fed up to here" with violence. Procaccino also knows that large segments of the working class and middle class are weary of idealistic reformers who somehow manage to cast the ordinary white man in the fall guy's role. Even politicians who are not racist?as Procaccino and Marchi are not?can capitalize on this sentiment. Candidates can be swept into office solely on its strength. Circumstances vary from region to region, but some of the same factors appear. Thus Detective Charles Stenvig finds himself the mayor of Minneapolis, and Sam Yorty...
...interpretations are frequent; renowned authorities like Rabbis Hillel, Gamaliel and Samson Raphael Hirsch are quoted. The Hebrews' escape from Egypt leads to a description of the Passover Seder, and the appearance of the young Jesus in the Temple is used to discuss the ceremony of Bar Mitzvah (a phrase, Christians will be interested to learn, which means "Son of the Commandment"). Some of the details even border on the esoteric: when the story of Joseph's temptation by Potiphar's wife is sung in synagogue, the book notes, the musical notation over the word "refused" is long...
Doty called the revised resolution "a great deal better in every way." He noted that the phrase immediate withdrawal of U.S. "forces" implied several months of de-escalation. The previous wording had used "troops...
About 100 WSA-SDS supporters endorsed the press statement dissociating themselves from RYM at a meeting last night-with one amendment. The sentence calling RYM actions "the work of provocateurs and police agents" was omitted, and in the phrase "their aim is to discredit and destroy the student movement" 'aim' was changed to read 'effect...
...those who take "chemical vacations," in Aldous Huxley's phrase, are simply in search of a high. Pop drugs are inextricably mixed with the youth culture and its distaste for a supertechnology that seems remote, false and uncaring. The two-martini lunch and the cocktail party have become potent symbols of frantic, achievement-oriented Western culture; for the young drug taker, the belligerent or sloppy drunk personifies the older generation's "hypocrisy" and lack of control. The darker side of pop drugs is the fact that some users have serious emotional problems. Dr. Phyllis Kempner, a clinical psychologist who works...