Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ideal form of it in the 1830s. For the naturalists, Friedrich had one last word. "If [the artist] sees nothing within him," he wrote, "then he should also refrain from painting what he sees before him. Otherwise his pictures will be like those folding screens behind which"-startling phrase-"one expects to find only the sick or the dead...
...morning, as absorbed in the minutiae of bureaucracy as a clerk in a tax office. He apparently enjoyed the stultifying formality of the Hofburg. Once, when he awoke very ill in the middle of the night, he was able to bark only one phrase at the physician who had scurried to him: "Formal dress!" If he had any off-guard moments, they were reserved for his marvelously bourgeois relationship with Actress Katherina Schratt, a love that lasted until he died. The Emperor regularly nipped down to Katherina's house for coffee after early morning Mass. Delighted Viennese fiacre drivers...
What is it that keeps them going? What inspires those guys who stare enviously at a patch of bench or the ones who'll never even dress for the J.V. scrimmage? Oh, they'll tell you it's for "the love of the game," or some other well-bandied phrase, but a more perceptive eye sees right through that centennial helmet--right down to that last big game, that vestige of glory--the previous senior year...
...where he edited the labor movement newspaper Davar. Poet, historian and compelling orator, he helped write Israel's declaration of independence in 1948 and served as the new state's first Education Minister before assuming -as a "man without enemies," in Premier David Ben-Gurion's phrase-the primarily ceremonial presidency. More traditional a Jew than many Zionist leaders, Shazar regularly played host to fellow Bible researchers at his official residence and was an active devotee of the joyous Hasidic movement...
...Kennedy was president. [Heller verified that Kennedy was indeed president then, and that there was an election in 1960, and continued.] It did anticipate--in the sense that it came before the Vietnam war--everything the Vietnam war brought with it, which was--it's not a phrase that I ever use--the 'military-industrial complex.' But it was there and certainly it grew with the whole morality of deception practiced by the executive in dealing with the American people and other nations, which often involves lying and distortion. But what I have to say about the military in Catch...