Word: touche
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WHAT IS COOLSPEAK? Well, it's basically Orwellian Newspeak with a touch of fashion. In 1984, the function of Newspeak is to reduce the human vocabulary to the point where abstract ideas and emotions could not be verbally conveyed. Although there are probably very, very few people in California who have even heard of 1984, the inhabitants of our West Coast have done a better job of destroying the power of our language than the Ministry of Truth could have dreamed of. Take, for instance, this deep and moving conversation I heard on the shuttle...
...result reflects the narrow mindedness of the planners and the process they employed. Woefully out of touch with the student mainstream, Epps and his aides catered their affair to suit a Final Club social set and a favored few undergraduates...
...very broad interests and tries to do it every semester," she adds. "He really likes to keep in touch with what's happening...
...those out there who would like to keep in touch with the dean, and maybe see how he stacks up in section, hurry and sign up for Professor Wallace T. MacCaffrey's History 1400a, "Early Modern Britain I, 1400-1600." The book Jewett bought is for that class. And its meeting time? Monday, Wednesday and Friday from...
...parents freaked out when I joined the movement," Fenton told the Heights. "But I've always been close with my family, and I've kept in touch with them...