Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that a theorist will always have a place in the academic community. But in some cases, when theorists become policymakers, the distinction between idea and section vanishes. In such cases--for instance, when social scientists commissioned by the government draw up plans to expand the Vietnam War--the phrase "Intellectual freedom" no longer applies and the academic community can no longer offer sanctuary...
...member added. "It isn't always that serious either, you know. A while ago, we were singing a Sermisy chanson which begins Au joly boys, en Tombre d'ung soucy,' and John pointed out that the whole phrase moved toward Tombre and its very nasal French vowel. Well, nobody was singing it correctly. So finally he said. 'When you sing Tombre, see nothing but a tremendous nose: Tombre,' which was really a good way of explaining to a vocalist that French vowels should vibrate in the nose and mask of the face when he or she sings...
...Mansfield sat for five years as a district court judge, where he made a distinguished record. One well-publicized decision required McSorley's Old Ale House in Manhattan to admit women. "Without suggesting that chivalry is dead," he wrote, "we no longer hold to Shakespeare's immortal phrase, 'Frailty, thy name is woman...
Borrowing a phrase from classical biology, Kraut calls the discovery the first known instance of "convergent evolution" on the molecular scale. In other words, "nature has invented the same piece of molecular machinery to do a particular job in two separate and independent instances." Kraut speculates that this convergence in the evolution of the enzymes is more than a coincidence. The genetic code and the basic building blocks of life (amino acids and proteins) are already known to be universal, he says. Thus Kraut's discovery is further evidence of what may eventually be accepted as a scientific fact...
Author Weston, 39, was trained as a singer but now teaches English in California. He takes high risks with his prose, alternating portent-filled silence with runs of gaudy phrase. Yet the alternation works, because the book is an imitation of memory, and visual memory often works that way too. In the end, the teacher finds past and possibility gone, but he has arrived at himself. The author knows what it is to be a creature of time...