Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three nights in a row, Weston's townspeople-housewives and commuters, doctors and architects, retired businessmen and young divorcees-wrestle with the dilemma, and by then it is clear that for many of them, "quality education" is really just a code phrase for a far more mercantile concept: the propping up of Weston's sky-high property values...
...election last November and who was a fellow at the Institute of Politics this spring, decried the nation's current laws, saying. "This is horrendous--no one is safe." Speaking at a fund-drive event in Sanders Theater, President Bok expressed his regret for the incident and related a phrase heard many times that day, calling it the saddest reaction to the shooting that he had heard: "a gentleman told me he was shocked but not surprised...
Perhaps it is fitting that the Galbraithian phrase most permanently woven into the fabric over everyday life is "the conventional wisdom," which he defines as "the beliefs that are at any time assiduously, solemnly and mindlessly traded between the pretentiously wise." Galbraith's radar for the "conventional wisdom" always makes his observations ring with that extra measure of clarity. When he wrote in a recent edition of The New York Review of Books that "Solar energy attracts people with an indifferent commitment to personal hygience and a strong commitment to organic foods," the comment transcended mere economic analysis. Likewise, when...
...wrote, "If I had the time, I would write the history of the rivers I have known." Journalist Paul Guimard calls him "a great writer." Literary Critic Bertrand Poirot-Delpech rates him with Léon Blum and De Gaulle as the most literary of French politicians: "Each phrase of Mitterrand, even spoken, bears the mark of someone who has never ceased to read the great writers, to scribble, to scratch out and, in short, to dream with words...
...books, articles, speeches and interviews, the new President of the Fifth Republic has displayed a wide-ranging mind, a precise turn of phrase and a feel for the texture of life. Excerpts...