Word: sir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...North...wasn't made to do what he did," said Horasina McKie, one of five alternates dismissed when the case went to the jury. "He had a choice in it. He had a choice to either say, `No, I don't want to do this' or `Yes sir, I will do this' even as it went along, and he knew it was wrong...
Princess Ida is Sullivan's first work as "Sir Arthur," and it focuses on the early struggle surrounding women's education. An "Amazonian bastion of learning" astounds English male-dominated culture in a hilarious comedy between the sexes which, although not one of Gilbert and Sullivan's most famous pieces, is often billed as one of their funniest. Shows are through Sunday night and continue next weekend at the Agassiz Theater in Radcliffe Quad...
...answer some interesting questions. Given the 2,435,671 quotations included in the OED2, which single author wins the citation sweepstakes? Most people would guess Shakespeare, and they would be right: 33,150 times. But who comes second? Tompa's keyboard clicks away, and the answer soon appears: Sir Walter Scott...
...Sir Walter Scott? But of course. The bulk of the new OED retains the stamp of the age in which it was born; it remains a triumph of Victorian duty and taxonomic zeal, of a century in which Scott was one of the most popular authors writing in English. Now that the text has become electronic and easier to revise, future OEDs may lose this 19th century bias. Not too soon, though, it is to be hoped. These handsome new books, containing a trove of information ! waiting to be mined, stand solidly between the past and future. They...
...Prettiman, a figure of caricature in the earlier books but now a man, seriously ill, who attracts Talbot's sympathy. Prettiman, a political radical, and his new wife are transporting a printing press with which they hope to stir change in the convict colony. Talbot reprimands stiffly: "And you, sir, travelling with the avowed intention of making trouble -- of troubling this Antipodean society which is created wholly for its own betterment!" Yet the young Englishman could become dry tinder for Prettiman's incendiary rhetoric: "Imagine our caravan, we, a fire down below here -- sparks of the Absolute -- matching the fire...