Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Drawing for Stars and Stripes, the Army's newspaper, Mauldin was telling it like it is long before that dreadful phrase was invented (see cut). Mauldin also became a kind of ombudsman for the G.I. in his war with officers and gentlemen. When the general who administered Naples, for example, started handing out four-day jail terms to war-weary troops for minor dress infractions, Mauldin-and Willie and Joe-were there with a cartoon. "Them buttons was shot off when I took this town, sir," a bedraggled Willie tells a well-scrubbed rear-echelon lieutenant. In Mauldin...
...under the control of the Saigon government. My conclusion, however, was that such a policy clearly could not in any sense "win" the war and that consequently "Peace in the immediate future must be based on accomodation," Both my article and report spelled out possible "bases of accomodation" which phrase happens to be the title of the article...
...bite comes from an essential warmth and humanity. Indeed, Foxx, who has written his own material for years, supplied some of his own acerbic lines. At one point when he had to refer to a black family who put on airs, he suggested using the authentic vernacular phrase "jive niggers." A less obvious Foxx contribution: the show's title. His real name is John Sanford...
This grated on the senior staff. There was a difference of purpose. He wanted to "put the museum into the streets." The trustees wanted the museum to remain "reflective and interpretive," in Hightower's phrase. And he had learned about trustees. "I had the responsibility all right," he said. "The problem was to get the authority." A good man in the wrong...
...they hated every minute of it, the Bach Society was alive with enthusiasm for Pulcinella. The piece represents the beginning of twentieth-century musical neoclassicism. Borrowing from Pergolesi, Stravinsky fools with the theme throughout, always setting off the expected (as implied by classical harmonies) against his own turn of phrase...