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...partnerships, they control the banks and businesses, sugar mills and coffee fincas, newspapers and radio stations. They are the employers and landlords who count: less than 1% of the country's landowners hold half of the privately owned land, most of it the choice acreage. In the bitter slang of the streets, Panamanians call them rabiblancos, meaning whitetails...
...Times used slang, we might believe that the young men of America were "trying to shirk or evade" these mental tests. Other slang definitions will cast light on this matter of national concern; for example, funk, "a state of panic," "first listed as Oxford slang." The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary is uncertain. See BLUE, they suggest. But before we do, notice a term in which "funk" is used in combination: Funkhole, military slang, "a trench dug-out; employment used as a pretext for evading military service." Here we have another connection which the Times surely, must have had in mind...
...Lawyers' slang for "preparing" witnesses. The term apparently derives from pre-automobile days, when lawyers often met with their witnesses in horse sheds...
...sensation by staging the Old Vic's final Romeo and Juliet as if it were an adaptation of West Side Story. This year, in a production that has become a Roman sellout, he has excised most of the melancholia from the melancholy Dane, replacing it with angry young slang and a revised standard version. "O, that this too too solid flesh would melt," for example, has become "Why doesn't this flesh, this heavy carcass of meat, dissolve?" The play is done in Italian in an almost corner-of-the-mouth modern idiom, with the gravediggers speaking...
...christen an idea, jazz musicians invent slang, admen and politicans go for novelty-promising labels ("New Fab," "New Frontier"), art critics pile on prefixes and suffixes ("post-abstractionism"). But it is theology, slicing its concepts fine, that seems to need new lingo most and best knows how to create it. Plain words, knighted with a capital letter, take on reverent meanings; Greek and German syllables, in numbers from two to six, are joined and sent out to intimidate the outsider...