Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...black-an accountant's phrase meaning to be in the money, as against to be in the red, meaning to be in debt...
...Suburbs Be Opened?", you state that federal and local fair-housing laws are "notoriously unenforced." As your example, you note that the U.S. Justice Department has 13 lawyers assigned to fair-housing enforcement and that we have "brought 44 cases to court and won 13." The last phrase might easily be construed by the reader as suggesting that we have lost 31, or 70%, of our cases...
Ultimate Goal. Even so, Douglas' impeachment is by no means impossible. The threat to Douglas lies in the elusive constitutional phrase that judges "shall hold their offices during good behavior." According to Gerald Ford, "an impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history...
...church setting makes The Persians seem like a hushed memorial service for the dead of all wars. Despite an occasionally stilted phrase, the John Lewin free translation is fluent, vivid and clear. The cast performs with tender gravity, and Jacqueline Brookes, in particular, brings affecting dignity to the role of King Xerxes' mother, as does J.A. Preston as the bearer of unbearable news. Underscoring the dialogue like a chorus of tears is the santur music of Composer Nasser Rastegar-Nejad. If someone had commissioned a great poet-playwright to write a drama for a Moratorium Day, this would...
...sort of humane pessimism about violence. Dreams do not come true, she asserts with Marx. "The rarity of slave rebellions and uprisings among the disinherited and downtrodden is notorious; on the few occasions when they occurred, it was precisely 'mad fury' [in Sartre's phrase] that turned dreams into nightmares for everybody...