Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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 unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of seeing St. Augustine flattered by a phrase or a phrase reading about the "Xian myth...
...universal values as well as national interests. Throughout this century that idea has helped rally other countries when U.S. Presidents have called. It enabled Bush to mobilize a mighty international coalition that cut across the traditional divides of East and West, North and South, and gave meaning to the phrase new world order...
While some economists have described the current slump as a near depression, that phrase overstates the case if it is taken as a comparison with the period 1929-33, when the U.S. economy contracted by nearly a third. The D word becomes more valid, especially with a small d, when it is used to compare the growth rate of the 1930s, which averaged 0.5% a year, with the expected sluggishness of the 1990s, which some economists predict will see an average growth rate...
...last. Whether by typifying 1991 or by transcending it, whether by embodying some great theme of the day or by quietly capturing the everyday, they will reverberate as long as, maybe longer than, the dramatic headlines now shouting at us. They will be, in Ezra Pound's phrase, news that stays news...
...reception at the Turkish embassy, presided over by a 12-ft. foam pasha from whose mail-slot mouth a bass voice emerges. As the sultry singer Samira, mezzo Marilyn Horne reclines lasciviously on a plushy couch and tosses off a florid cavatina and cabaletta to words from an Arabic phrase book ("I am in a valley, and you are in a valley . . ."). It's diverting and spectacular in a rather sweet, good-humored way. And that, despite the dark shadow of the guillotine, is the prevailing mood of Ghosts and the reason for its effectiveness. The final image: Marie Antoinette...