Word: shorthand
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Political rhetoric tends to achieve a life of its own, congealing into cant and conventional wisdom, an unexamined shorthand. In a forthcoming book, The Real Majority (Coward-McCann Inc.; $7.95), Political Analysts Richard Scammon and Ben J. Wattenberg take a canny inventory of the nation's political assumptions and vocabulary. They conclude that some of the preconceptions of both Democrats and Republicans need a fresh going over...
...Asians' plight has long concerned Ronald Bates, 57, a fourth-generation Australian who has managed to avoid speaking Strine himself, but knows just how confusing it can be. As a Sydney court stenographer, Bates has to decipher the lingo and convert it into shorthand symbols at the rate of 200 words a minute. "Thank God I'm a professional phoneticist," he says. "Otherwise, I wouldn't know what the hell half the witnesses and lawyers I have to record were talking about most of the time...
...girl tells us first off, lighting a joint, that she avoids "reality trips-man, they're a drag," She supports herself as a secretary who clearly neither types nor takes shorthand. She perceives no unity between one day and the next, no pattern correcting her life, until she hears of the fate her lover meets an hour after their separation...
...Importance of Being Earnest. Onstage, Bunburying is such a mischievous male lark that, as Auden puts it, "Whenever I see or read the play, I always wish I did not know what I do about Wilde's life at the time he was writing it." Bunburying was shorthand for a visit to a fashionable London male whorehouse, and Bunburying, or berging-the disguise of homosexual material in literature-is still a common phenomenon in this outspoken...
...they do not have to take notes, and they are assured that the other reporters will be writing the safe thing. It is good advice for demonstrators to pass out copies of all the statements they make form the steps of occupied buildings, because most reporters cannot take shorthand and do not bother with speakers who talk too fast...