Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PHONY, kitch and camp are examples of a useful phenomenon: every so often a word breezes into common usage meaning many things and weaving together previously unrelated objects into a new category. Novelist Vladimir Nabokov offers a new word, poshlost (pronounced push-lost). In Russian it means vulgarity or triteness, but in an interview with Author Herbert Gold in the current Paris Review, Nabokov so expands the definition that it makes one wonder how the English language ever got along without...
Needing Every Penny. Labor, too, with its fierce class antagonisms still smoldering and its "I'm all right Jack" attitudes, has stoutly resisted any modernization of British industry that infringed on shop-hardened rituals. The unions' push for wages, backed by a proclivity for wildcat strikes unmatched in any country, sent hourly earnings soaring some 40% from 1960 to 1966. While Britain's productivity grew by only 18%, West Germany's was rising 29% and Italy's 40%. The result was that British goods were priced out of the market, while Britons used their money...
...monster crane with a boom almost as long as a football field plucked a 35-ton concrete box from a waiting truck-trailer and swung it high over the construction site beside the San Antonio River. Ever so delicately, Crane Operator Gene Smith steadied the massive shell against the push of the wind; every gust was countered by radioed adjustments in the pitch of a helicopter tail rotor mounted on the lifting rig. With directional help from a magnetic compass, Smith gently stacked each concrete box atop an identical unit, to which it was sealed with more concrete. Seventy...
...proceed at 65 m.p.h. toward his office in town-except when there are so many other cars going the same way that he can listen to all of Beethoven's Ninth. By the time he gets to the office, his wife has already called-from the pink, push-button Princess extension in the kitchen-to ask him to stop by the shopping center on the way home and pick up the washing she is going to leave during the day at the Laundromat there. She and Mabel next door are going to a theater matinee in the Mustang...
...Boston weekend amply demonstrated the senator's determination. It remains to be seen whether he can put together a professional organization which will aggressively push his candidacy. It is, as Galbraith observes, a long chance. McCarthy now says privately he is going to try to go all the way. Given the right campaign, he could literally win. --PARKER DONHAM...