Word: quirks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...technology, show biz and sex appeal strikes many foreigners as the epitome of the American success story, and so they adopt English words that imply success itself: super, blue chip, boom, status symbol, summit. Some of that, clearly, is just snobbery. Through U.S. television, says British Grammarian Randolph Quirk, a foreigner can pick up an Americanized vocabulary "if you want to show you're with it and talking like Americans, the most fashionable people on earth." On the other hand, some upper-class Egyptian youths think it is chic to use Anglo-Saxon four-letter words like--well, merde...
...bill of rights is no more than a talking paper. But the voices belong to some powerful investors. "Management is going to have to pay a lot more attention to us," asserts New York's Goldin. Massachusetts Investment Chief Paul Quirk, a council member, agrees. Says he: "In takeovers, management could always count on our vote. Now that has all changed...
Despite the drop in applicants from 400 in 1985 to 300 this year, Dartmouth will not enroll fewer Black students, officials say. The admissions office will institute a "more energetic follow-up procedure" to woo prospective Black students, Dean of Admissions Alfred Quirk told The Dartmouth...
When the soldiers left Cairo International Airport Wednesday evening, a quirk of fate saved Private First Class Eric Harrington of Lake City, Fla. The unhappy soldier could not find his passport, and he was sent back to Sharm el Sheikh to await this week's rotation home. His buddies departed on a 1,900- mile flight to Cologne, West Germany, where the DC-8 landed for a 90-minute refueling stop. Security there was described as tight. After a 2,700-mile Atlantic crossing, the plane touched down at Gander to refuel again for the final, 1,700-mile...
...credit for bravery. A Maggot, his seventh work of fiction, is an unusual and consciously risky book. The title alone may discourage the curious (and give booksellers the willies). In a brief prologue, Fowles explains that he is using the word maggot in the obsolete sense of whim or quirk, but that won't help matters much. And what will readers make of such Fowlesian whims as building his plot around questions to which he never provides the answers? Or resting his conclusion on an assumed familiarity with the Shakers, that little-known sect of puritanical Protestants who arose...