Word: subways
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...masculine, and a door (die Tiir) is feminine (apparently the doctor cannot bear to hear one slammed). As he sees it, a language in which only he and she are sexed must be up to no good. In English, what is the sex of a bicycle, an eggplant, a subway? None. And what does this engender? According to Dr. Hartogs and Hans Fantel, a "professional writer" who has tried to guide the psychiatrist through sexless English, Americans turn "grammatical lack of gender into a linguistic sex orgy" as a reaction against -guess what? "The Puritan tradition...
...General ordered a "considerable increase" in French aid to Quebec. It would not take much to make any increase considerable, since the most visible signs of French aid so far have been an exchange of some 60 schoolteachers and a technical assist in building Montreal's rubber-tired subway. What France desires, said De Gaulle, is "to help the French of Canada to maintain and develop their personality." That they need such help, said French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville last week, is beyond question. Until De Gaulle's visit to Quebec, purred Couve, French Canada...
...term for a 1 28th note in music (quasihemidemisemiquaver, or semi-hemidemisemiquaver). Good sport that he is, Borgmann asks his fans for suggestions. How about this: What is the significance of this series: 8, 14, 23, 28, 34, 42, 49, 57? Hint: any straphanger on the New York BMT subway can see the answer pass before his eyes...
...when the two strains are thoroughly fused. Two of the most original: - Jeremy Steig, 24, a wildly lyrical flutist and the leader of an electrified jazz-rock group called the Satyrs, which occasionally accompanies its pulsing din with such tape-recorded sounds as those of a thunderstorm or a subway train. Classically trained, Steig (son of Cartoonist William Steig) hums into as well as plays his amplified flute, mixes shimmering, bluesy cascades of notes with jabbing, rhythmic interjections, sometimes bending tones into piercing dissonances, sometimes dissolving into trills or fluttery tremolos. Jazz Critic Whitney Balliett describes Steig's musical...
...female experience as pregnancy. Surveys show that the average woman thinks about it for nine months before she decides to change her shade for the first time. In October, when Radiantly Reds will be marketed nationally, Gelb will offer plenty of encouragement by means of TV, magazines, bus and subway posters. "Every woman should be a redhead at least once in her life," Clairol will suggest. "Some lucky girls are born red," says another ad. "Others catch up." Of its $45 million advertising budget, the company is committing about $2,000,000 to Radiantly Red-four times as much...