Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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American neoclassicism was the style that marked the difference between the old regime and the new. When a cartoonist wanted to evoke the states of the embryo Republic, he drew them as classical columns standing together. The phrase the "federal pillars" was not just an empty cliche. Jefferson was not, of course, the only architect to act on such beliefs. In 1795 work began on Charles Bulfinch's new Massachusetts state house on Beacon Hill. The Old State House, built in 1712-13, had been the symbol of British power over Boston's economic life. Its site was tainted...
...Supreme Court has drawn some confusing borders between church and state, basing its decisions on a fervently disputed phrase in the Constitution: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." As interpreted by the high court, those words forbid incidental aid to parochial schools and religious agencies, posting the Ten Commandments in public classrooms or, in a decision two weeks ago, laws that require teaching "creation science" alongside evolution. Citing the establishment clause, the pro-choice Abortion Rights Mobilization hopes the courts will force the Roman Catholic Church to stop pro-life politicking or lose its tax exemption...
...Johnson took the trophy emphatically while the Lakers struggled for the prize. The critical shot in Game 4, when Boston could have evened the play-off at home, was a short hook that Johnson added only this season, "lifting his game" in his eighth year. That's the customary phrase, though it makes him wonder. "I was asked to score more this year, but it's wrong to say I've given more. I've always played the role I've been asked to play. The more responsibility I'm given, the more I show...
Linus Z. Gelber is a psychology concentrator, so he found a phrase to describe what it takes to be an actor: "tolerance of ambiguity." Here's the ambiguity he faces right now: he is waiting to hear from the Circle in the Square Repertory Theater in New York and the British American Drama Academy in London. In about two weeks he will know, and if both answers are no, he will go to Dallas with senior Lisa Lindley, who is entering Southern Methodist University's acting school...
...think about being Black" or "Being Black is not an issue in my life." These statements, which immediately brand the speaker as either a liar or victim of autism, can be isolated as a corollary to the white student's "I don't think of you as Black"--a phrase whose originator must have thought conferred the equivalent of knighthood...