Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...psychological payoff target of Saigon, rocket shells and terrorist bombs exploded with deadly frequency. They were followed, especially at U.S. outposts and forward bases, by ground assaults that forced many units into close combat. As a result, the American death toll for each of the past two weeks rose above 300 for the first time in nearly two months -which is precisely where headline-conscious Communist strategists would like to keep...
...Malay mobs, wearing white headbands signifying an alliance with death, and brandishing swords and daggers, surged into Chinese areas in the capital, burning, looting and killing. In retaliation, Chinese, sometimes aided by Indians, armed themselves with pistols and shotguns and struck at Malay kampongs (villages). Huge pillars of smoke rose skyward as houses, shops and autos burned...
...with the quaint title of Laureate Conductor. Even so, his ten-year tenure as music director was a particularly personal and successful relationship. The first American-born conductor to head a front-rank U.S. orchestra, he was chosen to succeed the late Dimitri Mitropoulos in 1958; since then, subscriptions rose from 9,886 to 25,570, and concerts at Lincoln Center's Philharmonic Hall, at least when Lenny conducted, were seldom less than a sellout. Although the orchestra could play dispiritedly for antipatico guest conductors, at its best it was the equal of any in the world. Proof...
...Change. The semanticist's objection to the verb "to be" is based on certain philosophical convictions. One is a stern rejection of an axiom of classical logic, the principle of identity-that A is A, or a rose is a rose. In fact, argued Korzybski, the basic principle of life is not identity but, as the elliptical pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus put it, that all is change. Time and movement are inexorable, and in the fraction of a second that a rose is described it has already begun to alter...
...semantic harm done by "to be" is that it tempts man into erroneous value judgments. Korzybski noted dryly that a rose is not at all "red" to those afflicted by color blindness, and that redness itself is not a reality but a quality of reflected light to which the description "red" is arbitrarily assigned. Better to say, Korzybski suggested, "I classify the rose as red," or "I see the rose...