Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Labor. His stint as director of Nixon's Urban Affairs Council ended a year after his memo urging a period of "benign neglect" of the racial issue was leaked to the press in 1970. Moynihan still bristles at what he regards as widespread misinterpretation of that phrase. It did not, he insists, refer to less Government attention to civil rights, but to a need for more care, at a time of high racial tension, to avoid situations "in which extremists of either race are given opportunities for martyrdom" ?such as the 1969 Chicago police raid on the Black Panthers...
...evidence that it is "Blue Book" (thus the work belongs to the literature of the exam period). But clearly we can see how the Anglo-Saxons believed that using a book, or reading it would gain the owner of the book virtual immortality (modern scholars have quibbled over the phrase, "use me," some contending it means simply "put on an expansive shelf," and not "read...
Gordon believes the answer to this riddle can be found in its surface meaning, "Bookworm." But if we examine the underlying textures, particularly in the last phrase, one meaning and only one meaning seems plausible. The answer to the riddle is "Person During Reading Period, Cramming for Exams." Although the study of Reading Period works is still young, it would not be stretching the truth to say that this riddle is the apotheosis of the genre...
...ending, "Long live world revolution, and death to imperialism!"--or the angrier speech by another African attacking the people who had pointed out inconsistencies in the backing of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola, both of which drew applause. Or the persistent tom-toms (to borrow a phrase from the African Youth Movement) of the Spartacus Youth League which time and again rose to attack the MPLA for its stance on workers' movements, and who were, at last, hissed back into their seats by more ardent MPLA supporters...
...Titanic Sailed at Dawn," is appropriate, since when any film runs into the iceberg of Crimson editorial cynicism, the only survivors will be those who insist on forming their own opinions rather than slavishly following those of a fellow classmate who happens to be able to turn a phrase...