Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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French Philosopher Henri Bergson identified as laughable "something mechanical incrusted upon the living"-his somewhat pedantic phrase for the essential dualism of life. Civilization, said Bergson, unfolds so rapidly that its creator, man, is hard put to keep up. As a result, both culture and language are full of outdated forms. When man is abruptly made aware of them, he responds with chastened or chastening laughter. Why do yesterday's fashions invariably strike us as comic? Because, Bergson thought, they expose the ludicrousness of all fashion-an effort by a creature, born naked, to wear and animate his wardrobe...
WHEN British Prime Minister Harold Wilson pays his first call on President Nixon this week, a familiar phrase may very well come up during their meeting-the "special relationship." Even today, the phrase conjures up deep and enduring ties between the two countries that may be helpful. Yet it does not come even close to carrying the significance that it did in 1946 when the phrase was coined by Winston Churchill...
Nobody in Egypt, and obviously not Nasser, seems to believe such figures. When Nasser announced last spring that 60% of the Bar-Lev line had been destroyed, he carefully included the phrase, "General Fawzi tells me." A current joke in Cairo goes: "If it took us nine months to destroy 60% of the Bar-Lev line, how long will it take us to destroy the remaining...
...Fuzzy. Aside from those occasional dustups, the Vice President's trip went with programmed efficiency. Not too much was expected of him, and if his explanations of the Nixon Doctrine were at times a bit fuzzy, that was hardly his fault. The Administration seems to have coined a phrase, but is still searching for a policy to define...
...instance, may be chosen for the most sacred part of the Mass, the consecration of the bread and wine. Though the consecration words themselves ("This is my body . . . This is my blood . . .") are identical in each version, the four differing Eucharistic prayers are designed, in Pope Paul's phrase, to emphasize "different aspects of the mystery of salvation." One particularly eloquent version describes Christ as "a man like us in all things but sin./To the poor he proclaimed the good news of salvation,/ to prisoners, freedom,/and to those in sorrow, joy." Developments in Eucharistic theology are also...