Word: timidation
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...from 1764 to 1799. During most of this period, Lichtenberg resided at Gottingen University, as a professor of mathematics and astronomy. Only Kant stayed at home longer than Lichtenberg; both men being somewhat alike in their appreciation of the virtues of the middle-class life. Lichtenberg, however, was no timid professor. One of the most appealing things about him is his interest and enthusiasm over the minor occurrences in his life. A simple rain storm was as apt to inspire him to comment as his "God, who winds our sundials." "It rained so hard the pigs got clean...
...were others who publicly scorned the walk over autumn leaves or mid-winter slush to the stuffy, overcrowded dance floors, but the floors never ceased to be packed. Some criticized the innocuous punch, the bad music, and the atmosphere, but everyone knew these scoffers were only the frustrated, the timid, the jealous and the lazy. All the world liked jolly-ups, and all the world was jolly. No one feared, for the jolly-up was a fact of life, solid and enduring, like Lamont and tutti-frutti. Now it appears that nothing is safe from the forces of evil...
...others cheered the second French Revolution. Wrote famed Intellectual Andre Maurois: "It's a good thing to suppress the orals, which are fatal for the timid. An individual can express himself fully in writing, give a survey of his true value on an exam paper, but be incapable of developing his ideas aloud." Added Author Jean Dutourd: "The reform pleases me, for it seems to be a step toward the suppression-pure and simple-of this entire monstrous examination...
...bold." It consists mainly of eight rules of usage, ten principles of composition, a few matters of form. Each Strunk command (Do not break sentences in two. Use the active voice. Omit needless words) is followed by a short, barking essay and examples in parallel columns-right v. wrong, timid v. bold, ragged v. trim. Strunk had pet usages; he insisted on forming the possessive singular of nouns by adding 's regardless of the final consonant (Rule 1 ). It would have enraged him to read a modern newspaper headline about Bonnie Prince Charlie: CHARLES' TONSILS...
...newspaper without making the reader scream? Experience suggests otherwise. When New York's afternoon dailies went from a nickel to a dime in 1956, all three took circulation losses so severe that not one of them has climbed back to its old level. After a more timid price boost-from a nickel to 7?-in 1952, two of Detroit's three papers spent years recovering lost ground, and the third-ranking Times has still not recovered. Yet a fortnight ago, all three Detroit papers raised prices again, and not only got away with it but last week sold...