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...Saxon expression. Yet previous Democratic Administrations, abetted by sociologists, made them "the disadvantaged" or "the culturally deprived." Now a memorandum in the Office of Economic Opportunity (a title that is another Thalidomide child of the language) has dictated that "the poor" shall be referred to, for precision's sake, as "lowincome individuals." As in "For ye have the low-income individuals always with...
...this twirp?" What, Evans asked, seemed to be the trouble between Walter and the 29-year-old who had just taken over as producer? Matthau explained that while shooting, "I had to go to the bathroom, and Jaffe ordered, 'Finish the scene first.' For God's sake," Matthau spluttered, "I'm the star...
...best parts of a Tech Southie game is the jam that will take place afterwards. You just have to have one when the atmosphere gets as heavy as it is this afternoon. Sure all the fans are Irish. Ethnic brawls just for the sake of ethnic brawls died a long time ago, although you can still get pretty serious about the blacks, but they don't play hockey, so that's irrelevant here...
...pontificating. In the title poem, he invokes his Age of Anxiety themes, then introduces a second voice to cut himself down: "What fun and games you find it to play/ Jere-miah-cum-Juvenal . . ." Suddenly yet a third voice yawns: "Go to sleep now for God's sake!/ You both will feel better by breakfast time...
...always easy to secure agreement among the conflicting viewpoints of commission members. The initial drafts of reports may contain dramatic or extreme statements that are subsequently modified for the sake of prudence. The Violence Commission, for instance, dropped a ringing line that appeared in an original draft: "As the early Christians showed, a prophetic minority sometimes shows more insight than a silent majority." Still, the tendency of a commission is to seek consensus since, without a unanimous report, its members know that their work will have little impact. Moreover, as ancient philosophers discovered, an extended symposium on human affairs...