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When Democratic incumbent Owen B. Pickett announced his retirement, the elder Wagner felt the call of duty--and an opportunity, Rachael Wagner said...
...gatekeepers at Merriam-Webster and The Oxford English Dictionary, the editors at American Heritage practice a linguistic open-door policy. Give us your "shock jocks," your "scuzzbuckets," they say. Give us your "digerati" yearning to "multitask." "People look at the dictionary as a normalizing thing," says executive editor Joseph Pickett. "It helps to give the word codified status." Not all words, thankfully. Take "stalkerazzi," which gained currency after Lady Diana's death. The term was considered for the dictionary but couldn't produce convincing credentials. Maybe it lost its place to "drug holiday" ("n. A usually brief period during which...
...decides which words get in the dictionary? I do, actually. "We have a systematic program for reading publications like TIME," says Pickett, "looking for examples of new words and new uses of old words." This knowledge is unsettling. Take "pizza face," a hurtful name once hurled at me as an acne-afflicted teen. Never do I want to see this epithet enshrined in a major dictionary, and yet by using it, as I just did, I've probably guaranteed its inclusion in the next edition...
...have to treat parents like shareholders in their children's education," says now retired superintendent Robert Pickett, who designed the plan. "We did whatever we could to get them to buy in." That meant closing down five schools that were in the worst disrepair, renovating the rest and building two schools from scratch on the outskirts of town. The district installed parents on its strategic-planning committee. Then it increased the rigor of its curriculum, asking parents to vote on an academic focus for each of the schools. At one writing, communication and technology school, for example, students keep...
Gonsalves is in charge of finding the music and choreographing the performance. Since college, Gonsalves has dabbled in songwriting. The selected accompaniment will include Pink Floyd's "Time," Wilson Pickett's "In the Midnight Hour," Prince's "1999," and a Gonsalves original, "Time Masters...