Word: singularability
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...hear more from Clement−lots more. At age 42, he made a political comeback by beating two other men in a primary, which virtually assures him the governorship in November. He Won the way he always has−with words. Clement loves words−particularly the first person singular. In one 30-minute campaign speech he mentioned himself exactly 213 times. In the same vein, he recalled to a Centerville audience that "I came down here as a boy and cut a right of way 20 feet wide and dug holes six and eight feet deep and set poles...
...orchestra: the woodwinds, en bloc, refused to stay in tune with the rest of the orchestra; not that one was often aware of this: for the brass refused to let anyone even hear the rest of the orchestra. The tubist, who punctuated the evening with a succession of singular sounds, must be singled out for special opprobrium...
...stayed with the boys in Fort Lauderdale. Greek grandeur is not duplicated by a setting in Thebes (Mich.) or Greek name-dropping. Swarthout reads like a parody of a bad translation of Homer: "At last the leaves are fallen; then do men their duty to the tree-crop, rite singular to towns, to which only fathers and sons may be initiate: leaf burning . . . Wives and mothers watch, doing dishes, their heads and shoulders oracular in kitchen light...
Marxist concept of culture and fantasy-life with another concept of combat. Like the West, the United States opposes the Marxist concept with freedom of interpretation in regard to the past, with freedom of creation in regard to the present-and also with a singular discovery, which is art's power of metamorphosis. However terrible an age, its art transmits only its music. The humanity of dead artists, when it transmits a scourge like the Assyrian horror, for all the torturer-kings of its bas-reliefs, fills our memory with the majesty of the Wounded Lioness...
...Alba, Mo. At third base for the champion New York Yankees stands Cletis Leroy Boyer, 25. At the same hot corner for the National League's revitalized St. Louis Cardinals is Kenton Lloyd Boyer, 30. By his performance so far this season, each could lay claim to a singular honor: classiest third baseman in baseball...