Word: sir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sir: President Thomas Johns (Pikeville College) preaches that confrontation and polarization of ideas make "people aware of their own thinking" [Nov. 29]. Regrettably, education in our society is so close to this state of affairs that we are rapidly losing our awareness of how others think. In short, confrontation methods are developing educational activists who close their minds to opposing issues in society and thus "optout" on the unique and basic purposes of higher education. Protests in the form of recent school-bond rejections by our generous but nettled taxpayers, suggest a greater sensitivity to the purposes of higher education...
...Sir: I, a nascent but enthusiastic neophyte in Latin scholarship, found my studies rewarded as I read your article, "Edibility Gap" [Dec. 6]. Included in your photo of ostentatious restaurant menus was one of obvious Roman vintage touting the gustatory delights of a New York establishment with acute illusions of classical grandeur. Atop the menu, in flawless (if somewhat perfunctory) Latin, were the words of the poet Catullus: "You will dine well at my table." Whereas the rest of the menu appears hopelessly verbose, its author was here perhaps all too brief, for, loosely translated, Catullus actually wrote: "You will...
...Sir: No study of menu language would be complete without this item from ROD'S 1890s (Morris Township, N.J.): "London Broil-Sliced Beef, with the inevitable mushroom sauce...
...Sir: Menuwise, I will never forget the day in 1960 when I stopped hungry at a drive-in with pretensions in Denver. There listed was an open-faced sandwich, "succulent slices of roast beef with delicious au jus." So help...
...Sir: I suggest for your 1968 Man of the Year a man who while he lived did more to bring men together peacefully than most of us thought possible, and who, after his tragic death, provides those of us who believed in him with the inspiration to carry on his dream: Dr. Martin Luther King...