Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Emile Zola described Les Halles as "the belly of Paris," and nobody ever coined a better phrase for the sprawling wholesale market on the Right Bank where for 800 years have flowed the meat, fowl, vegetables, dairy products, herbs, roots, fish, cheese and even flowers necessary to sustain a city of gourmets. Sadly, Paris inevitably outgrew its inefficient and costly belly; two years ago, most operations were moved to a shiny new complex at Rungis near Orly Airport. That move left the problem of what to do with a dozen huge cast-iron-and-glass pavilions that made...
Workaholism, Oates says, is not confined to men. It can also strike females at home, in offices, in volunteer agencies, or even for Women's Lib. Afflicted housewives often overuse the phrase "Let me do it" while complaining of having to clean up after everyone else. But compulsive housework is not the only symptom of work addiction evident in the home; there is also compulsive childbearing, "one of the most exhausting types of work there is." The woman who has many children, Oates concludes, may simply be a workaholic...
...public institutions would rehabilitate the criminal, conquer insanity and resurrect the indigent. Social Philosophers Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave Auguste de Beaumont noted after an official look at New World progress that Americans had made a profession out of "philanthropy." With a touch of Gallic skepticism, they added the phrase "which to them seems the remedy for all the evils of society...
...left the meetings confident that the choice was in good hands. The Fall meetings kept Corporation members running on their brief weekends in Cambridge, running like men who had been given nine months to come up with an answer to a question that no person or group could adequately phrase: Who will best reflect all of the concerns, ambitions, fears, doubts, and talents of the multi-dimensional Harvard community...
Breslin, the author and columnist, referred to Harvard as "the place that originated the phrase 'the episodic response' and 'sustained reprisal'." Referring to animosity toward construction workers on the part of college students, he said, "Who told them that the war in Vietnam was all right? It wasn't the head of Local 14-it was Rostow, McNamara, Bundy...