Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Probably the toughest battle of all was over a single phrase. East Germany demanded full recognition as a wholly sovereign state. West Germany insisted on keeping alive, however tenuously, the notion of eventual reunification. Bahr therefore sought to include in the preamble a phrase mentioning "the German nation," or "two states of Germany," or "Germany as a whole." Finally, the negotiators sought refuge in obfuscation, agreeing on a reference to "existing differences of opinion including the national question...
...Gilllgan's Island reruns. The tot boards endlessly reeled off numbers that were rendered ciphers by the landslide. Reporters talked aimlessly with such pundits as Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. Late in the evening, even Eric Sevareid was at a loss for his specialty, the orotund, empty phrase. In desperation he began to pick the brain of Luigi Barzini, author of The Italians and a dilettantish follower of McGovern's campaign...
Among the truths that keep getting buried under the icing of cliché is one about frustration and how it leads to violence. In a bestselling study, Love and Will (1969) Psychiatrist Rollo May began his "search for the sources of violence." That phrase is now the subtitle of his new book Power and Innocence (Norton; $7.95). Both works are closely related; an understanding of one is a help in reading the other...
...young man now old enough to vote cannot remember a time since he learned to read when it was not there?those malign black headlines of Tonkin and Tet and moratorium, of Khe Sanh and presidential abdication and Chicago. It was, in Critic Michael Aden's phrase, "the living-room war." The evening news on television imaged forth the village ignited with a Zippo lighter, the director of South Viet Nam's police matter-of-factly blowing out a man's brains near the An Quang pagoda, the Buddhists burning themselves to death. In a sense, all Americans became veterans...
...expectations: he is no hairy freak, but a voluble Brazilian-Italian given to white shirts, gray suits and highly polished black shoes. He rarely touches coffee-let alone grass-and confesses that he would be "terrified" to take peyote except under Don Juan's guidance. The phrase "drug culture" is ceaselessly bandied about in America. It is a swollen cliché, and not very descriptive either. Culture, as Castaneda would say, is consensus. Instead we have abundant drug use, which is a different matter...