Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HARVARD. Leafing through the course catalog, I discover four courses which relate to my projected thesis topic. Three are house humanities courses, one is a graduate seminar in Comparative Literature. All have limited enrollment. Exuberantly, marking the margins with my Flair, I consider which of the four I'd prefer to take...
...fund-raising dinner in Philadelphia, Shirley Temple Black, deputy chairman of the U.S. delegation to the U.N. Conference on Human Development, made it perfectly clear that there is at least one human development that displeases her. "I don't care for Women's Lib," she said. "I prefer the strong arms of my husband around...
Biological Controls. To combat California's rampant mosquitoes, researchers hope to develop new pesticides, but mainly for "emergencies." They now prefer to use the bugs' natural enemies. Culex, for example, can be controlled by the mosquito fish (gambusia) and the common guppy which eat mosquito larvae in water. Certain bacilli, when applied to pasture land, also kill mosquito larvae. Another method includes releasing large numbers of male mosquitoes of the same species but of different strains. Because of genetic incompatibilities, the eggs of the females fail to hatch...
...other masculine drinks like ale and porter. Even beer "has a much thinner taste," according to Winick. The tastelessness of convenience foods like instant coffee "helps reinforce our acceptance of the neuter" in the rest of our culture. In ballet, adults adore the unisexuality of Nureyev; in books, children prefer easy-to-read real-life adventures to fairy tales with their "idealized, romantic rolemodels of the masculine and feminine...
...very much reality," wrote T.S. Eliot, and few businessmen would disagree. Since appearances are important in business as elsewhere, executives are quick to wrap their troubles in euphemisms, or at least camouflage them in obfuscating language. Many companies have been uncommonly troubled by the recent recession, which some experts prefer to call a "recedence" or "retardation," and by new attacks on industry's social conscience. One consequence is that the linguistic fog has begun to thicken in annual reports, executives' speeches and other official statements. A sampler...