Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...service. In fact, he implied that working in the Peace Corps is not especially useful at all. The Administration, he went on, had done the best it could "against very great obstacles. We finally achieved a peace with honor. I know it gags some of you to write that phrase, but it is true-and most Americans realize it is true...
...acts at the Loeb Ex this weekend, Not Enough Rope and Home Free, are weak plays of a wheezing genre. For her play, Elaine May borrowed the phrase "enough rope" from the title of a book of verse by Dorothy Parker. May sampled little of Parker's bittersweet wit, however, in constructing this glimpse of a bored, nervous girl who mimes her Judy Garland records to entertain herself. Only the precise direction by Lindsay Davis and the believable hysteria of Fran Davis, as the girl, Edith, save the play from coming off as a losing entry in a high school...
...President mentioned achieving "peace with honor," but it is a dubious and troubling phrase to apply to Viet Nam. No matter what honor the U.S. could still extract from that cruel battleground, honor must now be sought at home as much as abroad. As Kissinger put it in his briefing: "Together with healing the wounds in Indochina, we can begin to heal the wounds in America...
...years in espionage, Hunt reflects: "You see, our Government trains people like myself to do these things and do them successfully. It becomes a way of life for a person like me." Of ten he traveled under assumed names, says Hunt, "to preserve plausible denial, " the phrase rolling from his lips so smoothly that it sounds like an agency cliche. Again and again he returns to the theme of an officer's loyalty to his subordinates: "If your people are caught in an operation, you do everything you can for them. Money is the cheapest commodity...
...just not there. So financially it does not pay to belong to the Crime. Going from the sublime to the ridiculous, the employees of The Greatest Show on Earth, from John Ringling North down to the lowliest water carrier, have a saying that they "are with it." This phrase means exactly what it says--that they are with it--and very proud they are indeed to be with it. Mr. North feels that he works just as hard as the water carrier does, and the water carrier feels that he works just as hard as The Old Man (voice...