Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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McCartney, to be released in the U.S. this week, is what used to be called a tour de force; today the phrase is "ego trip." Paul wrote all 14 songs, sings all the lead parts, plays all the instruments. In mood and style, the disk marks the same kind of return to simple pleasures, and a simple, countrified way of saying them, that characterizes Bob Dylan's recent work. One song especially, the Nashville Sounding Every Night ("Every night I just wanna stay out and be with you"), seems to be a genuine salute to Dylan's Tonight...
FATHER LONERGAN is known for dense, often excruciatingly abstruse prose. Yet somehow he can turn a masterly phrase when the right insight inspires him and on occasion be not only aphoristic but almost poetic. A sampling, beginning with a passage from the preface to Insight that seems prophetic in describing some of the ailments of contemporary society...
...already there. You can live right out of your insides." He decides to go back to America, where he can at least fight on familiar territory. Once there, he plans to write a seven hundred page book, every single page of which will be empty, except for the phrase. "Kiss my blackass." The book, he says, will be autobiographical, reflecting a black man's struggle to live in white society...
Bergson proposed the addition of the words "whenever circumstances permit" after the phrase "officers are expected...
Sentimentality in Reverse. "The bitch-goddess, success" was a phrase coined by William James. What Mary Orr, who penned the original story, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who scripted the film, and Betty Comden and Adolph Green, who wrote the book for Applause, have done is to reverse James and produce a clever little parable on the success goddess-bitchiness. It may be clever, but it is far from valid. Cynicism is sentimentality in reverse and equally untrue. Of all places, the theater, with its intense critical scrutiny, verifies the copybook maxim that success must be earned and that only merit will...