Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both these cases smoldered throughout the spring and summer. Dalton threatened to sue the University if Bok did not tenure her, and Trubek coined the phrase "the Beirut of legal education" to describe Harvard Law School...
John Paul referred to Jews as "fellow believers" and spoke of the Holocaust as a "ruthless and inhuman" effort to exterminate specifically European Jews. "Never again!" the Pontiff declared, repeating a common Jewish phrase referring to the Nazi era. He also endorsed Catholic-Jewish programs to educate youngsters about the Nazi atrocities. Said Rabbi James Rudin, interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee: "The healing is under...
Once upon a time . . . that fairy-tale phrase glistened with wonder luster. Children's imaginations were sparked by fantasy literature that placed all adventure -- fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles -- in the past tense. "Thrilling days of yesteryear!" "A long time ago in a galaxy . . . " Locating these tales in the world's own childhood taught children their roles in the continuing drama of the human family. It also carried a cautionary moral: things were better then, more exciting and romantic, than they could ever be now. Youth is a prince who dreams that anything...
...last week with Gary Hart, as the defrocked candidate tried out his first tentative TV steps on the road to rehabilitation. That such a cathartic spectacle was inevitable did not make the show pleasant to watch. Doggedly Hart went through the rituals of redemption: he used the phrase "serious mistake" four times, "bad judgment" three times, and twice confessed his "sins." He even acknowledged, months after it ceased to have any conceivable relevance to the public debate, that he had not always been "absolutely and totally faithful" to his wife...
...cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your blue book, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically un-concerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of seeing St. Augustine flattened by a phrase or reading about the "Xian myth...