Word: style
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...greatest comic genius since Shaw is still in style...
...expect you'll be becoming a schoolmaster, sir. That's what most of the gentlemen does, sir, that gets sent down for indecent behaviour." A young critic named Cyril Connolly spoke of Waugh's "delicious cynicism." Years later it was apparent that the vivacious style had been based on profound disgust...
...wrenching political or social change in this century would indicate that his novels are in danger of going out of style...
...that, sloganeering is far from going out of style. The slogan is, after all, probably the best people mover this side of earthquakes, court orders and guns. A first-rate slogan is potent indeed when properly contrived. It becomes as easy to remember as it is hard to forget. It plants itself in the consciousness by rhythm, rhyme, pith or brevity. Once there, it works not only by whatever imagery it carries but-more-by the latent emotions it mobilizes. It plays too on the verities and prejudices of its audience, balming or inflaming them according to purpose. Just...
...this year's election, the county soundly rejected Kelly, returned two anti-desegregation spokesmen to positions of power and over-whelmingly approved a Proposition 13-style tax measure, prompting the Post to comment, "The voters seemed to be seeking a return to the days when life in Prince George's was simpler...