Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...summed up the report, the country has been "off stride for ten years." Although the 75-page final report is fraught with qualifiers in the traditional academic manner, the panel came to some firm conclusions about the nature of American schools-and society -that in the experts' own phrase warrant "careful attention by everybody interested in education...
Durrell loves the poetic effusion, what he calls "romancing"-but in an amiable way, like a man on his third drink who suddenly falls in love with a phrase. Some times he treats the past with a lovely disrespect. At the catacombs in Syracuse, 'there was an unhealthy-looking monk on duty at the picture-postcard stall. He looked as if he had just been disinterred himself." As for the catacombs, "a coal mine would have offered the same spectacle, really...
Hugh Sidey's assessment [Aug. 1] of President Carter's first six months vis-à-vis the national mood is right on! The nation wants and needs an administrator, not a salesman. Espousing catch-phrase slogans is the easy work of politics; executing successful programs is the difficult work of Government...
...there a phrase to capture all of this? Mondale could not find one. Nor could Hamilton Jordan or Jody Powell. A search through Carter's hundreds of thousands of public words suggests no easy pigeonholes. "It comes out as Jimmy Carter and not a particular philosophy," says a staffer. Carter's top domestic-programs man, Stuart Eizenstat, sees the Carter contribution shaping up roughly in the Democratic progressive tradition-but with important differences. Carter's Keynesian economics is tinged with his rural reluctance to spend a buck. His compassionate populism is tempered by his suspicions of mindless...
...state society of certified masseurs demanded that the phrase "massage parlor" be expunged from the language because the term tends to denigrate all practitioners of the hoary art of body rubbing...