Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sad that such linguistic artistry wasn't taught earlier. Think of the World War II Navy pilot who had a chance to report, "Have received visual indication of hostile submersible and deactivated its flotation capability." Instead, all the poor linguistic cripple could say was "sighted sub, sank same...
...Garth wrote: "The patient's ears remorseless he assails/Murders with jargon where his medicine fails." Still, physical medicine is nothing compared with psychiatry. There's where we Jargonists truly have our day. Suppose a man loses his wife and is unable to love anyone because he is sad. What do I tell...
Incriminating Tendency. As usual, assorted defense experts denied obscenity; indeed, Novelist Anthony Burgess declared that Exit "might make sexual activity of any kind repugnant." Publisher Marion Boyars called Exit "a sad book, a true book" and "too American" to sell. As for gain, she said, her firm had sold 11,247 copies and netted only $3,315.20. Appearing for the prosecution, Dr. Ernest Caxton, an authority on homosexuality, called the book an "extremely dangerous" guide to homosexual experimentation. Book Publisher (Pergamon Press) Robert Maxwell, a Labor M.P., blasted it as "sociological material with filth and muck just added for profit...
Married. Michael Dunn, 32, actor, whose 3-ft. 10-in. size has stretched into a bright career on stage (The Ballad of the Sad Café), screen (Ship of Fools) and TV (CBS's Wild Wild West series); and Joy Talbot, 28, 5-ft. 4-in. Manhattan model; in Manhattan...
...Seasons. "Sir Thomas More is a man of angel's wit and singular learning, a man of marvelous mirth and pastimes, and sometimes of as sad gravity: a man for all seasons...