Word: shorthand
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...claim is a cheeky one. Because campaign positions are inevitably reduced to sketchy impressions and shorthand phrases, Hart has been vulnerable to caricature as the candidate who merely espouses the idea of new ideas. In fact, he bristles with notions about how Government should be run. Some sound sensible and promising, some trendy and impractical. Cynics say that Hart simply rediscovered an old marketing trick. "New faces, New Frontier, New Deal, new horizons," chants Illinois' Democratic state chairman, Calvin Sutker. "It's always good to say something...
Born Ethel Agnes Zimmermann, she trained as a stenographer, and long after becoming a star prided herself that she could still take Pitman shorthand. But she planned to be a singer. Early in life she dropped the first syllable and final letter of her name with a typical explanation...
...unsettling moments: that glimpse of the new calendar, the first chance to write 1984 in a diary or on a letter or check. Orwell spelled his title out, a practice followed in the first editions: the book had a name, like Utopia or Leviathan, not a date. But the shorthand 1984 also gained wide currency. And those four neutral integers, fused so long in the public consciousness, have acquired the shimmering, brutal power of the hieroglyph...
American servicemen are dying abroad, and the air is filled with metaphors. Like all the code words of ideological warfare, such metaphors are more than mere shorthand. They are used to prevent thought. They do so by instantly conjuring up a whole complex of circumstances and feelings to be drawn automatically from one situation and plugged into another. For "another Iran," read: hostages, helplessness, humiliation. For "another Cuba," read: adventurism, revolution, proxy mischief. For "another Afghanistan," read: imperialism, superpower bullying, disrespect for the rule of law. (For "another Nicaragua," see "another Cuba," above...
...almost scornfully, detached pragmatic considerations from a larger moral context. To discuss the morality of actions was evidence of softness, and intellectuals with power in their hands cannot bear to be thought soft. Everyone carried the Munich model around in his head. One talked in laconic codes, a masculine shorthand; one did not, like Adlai Stevenson, deliver fluty soliloquies about the morality of an act. After the Bay of Pigs, Bowles wrote: "The Cuban fiasco demonstrates how far astray a man as brilliant and well-intentioned as President Kennedy can go who lacks a basic moral reference point...