Word: saxonism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poor" seems such a poignantly simple Anglo-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...
...latest entrant is The Lawyer , touted as making its debut at the Saxon Theater, although the week before it had been shown at the Harvard Square to an audience of law students, who proceeded to make Director Sidney J. Furie feel about as welcome as Judge Hoffman in the city room of the Old Mole . The film is loosely based on the Sam Sheppard murder case, which of course also touched off a popular TV series which every week asked the question, can a one-armed man find happiness in a two-fisted world...
...could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a King of infinite space," Borges seems completely at home with his years and his blindness. By 1955, his sight was nearly gone. "I stopped wasting time at movies," he jokes. But he actually began an intensive study of Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse to enjoy the odd lore about monsters and dragons as well as recurrent poetic devices-known as kennings-"whale's path" and "swan-road" for sea. For relaxation he is read to, mostly from favorite writers whom his intellectual admirers disdain: Kipling, Conrad, Stevenson. "Time flows...