Word: polysyllabicism
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West Germany has done very well under the Christian Democrats, and to most Germans Chancellor Kiesinger is the model of what a statesman should look like-tall, dignified and silver-haired. In a straightforward popularity contest, he would probably outpoll Socialist Leader Willy Brandt 2 to 1. But there is...
LOS ANGELES, CALIF. Ebony Showcase. An all-black cast performs Herb Gardner's A Thousand Clowns, about the friendship of a nonconformist lover of life and his polysyllabic twelve-year-old ward.
"My resignation is dictated solely by administrative practices of your office," said the curt letter, which went on to accuse the writer's employer of "maladministration" and "executive undercutting." The angry author was a man usually known for his cool-John Charles Daly, 54, for nearly two decades the...
Like the daily Broadway critics, Newman is given about an hour in which to prepare his reviews. When he goes on the air shortly after 11 p.m. on the night of an opening, he has 60 seconds in which to deal with his subject. That's "between 180 and...
He shows off his forensic marksmanship in a weekly TV debate called Firing Line, on which he confronts his adversaries with a polysyllabic vocabulary and an arsenal of intimidating grimaces. Does the occasion call for an eyebrow lifted in disdain, a mouth drawn down in disbelief, a popeyed leer of...