Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That phrase had hit us as if in answer to out prayers...
...whose views were condemned after his death, would be appalled at the blind way we shamble in his huge footsteps. The magnificent company of non-Catholic thinkers-Spinoza, Kant, Kierkegaard, Sartre-are too often presented in our texts as straw men to be knocked down with a pat phrase and a smirk for the stupidity of those who don't agree with us." Kreyche's goal was "a classroom in which professor and student can move easily from Socrates to Sartre, from Plato to Planck, from Aristotle to Ayer...
...other times he invents a word or phrase to suit his needs. For instance, he labels a woman as "very house-proud"--because, by the way, she refuses to let her son-in-law leave the fly-infested corpse of his wife on her doorstep...
...some of history's most stirring slogans, from "Erin go bragh" to "Remember Pearl Harbor" have been just that. In peacetime, argues Hayakawa, electorates respond more readily to slogans that promise change, since people are rarely satisfied with things as they are. One notable exception was the catch phrase that helped return Britain's Tory Party to power in 1959: "You never had it so good." In general, though, Democrats, like detergent manufacturers, favor slogans that offer a new and better product ("New Deal," "New Frontier"). The Grand Old Party, like whisky distillers, prefers to emphasize aged...
Lowell's latest book of verse, For the Union Dead, is in the manner of Life Studies, but Lowell is making his way back into the world again. The best of these poems have a compactness of phrase that evokes a time and a place with a vividness that comes from "meditation on the true and insignificant," as in the poem, The Mouth of the Hudson...