Word: spake
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...though, in Eliot and other 20th century poets and novelists, lay in the prominence of the pronoun I--the center of relativistic thought. Thus spake the confessional poetry of the 1960s, the memoirs in the 1980s and 1990s, the prominence of the narrator in all of modern fiction. A commonplace paradox that was soon to characterize fiction was that the antihero, who was beset and disempowered by modern bureaucracies and machines, was simultaneously exalted by his diminished status...
WASHINGTON: Talk about brazen: "The government got what it wanted, knowing full well what the consequences would be" ? thus spake Richard J. Urowsky, attorney for software giant Microsoft, as the browser battle picked up where it left off in December. Clearly, the firm's lawyers have lost none of their chutzpah in the intervening month ? at one point Urowsky claimed that Microsoft, that poor lost soul, was caught between contrary unbundling orders from the DOJ and the court. Even the judge, Thomas Penfield Jackson, had to raise his eyebrows at that. "Microsoft came across as very abrasive," says Netly News...
...Rick's great contribution was to the growth of our consumer business." Thus spake Citicorp chairman John Reed in a statement last week that praised Citicorp president Richard S. Braddock -- and announced his resignation. "It's a real mystery to the banking community," says Kevin Timmons, senior banking analyst for First Albany. "You could make a case that blame is being assessed here for Citibank's problems, but I don't see where he bears a significant portion of it." In fact, Braddock may have simply recognized that he was not likely to assume Reed's top spot...