Word: turgidity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...significantly lower than in the first half of the year." Earlier, Administration forecasts had living costs rising at 7% later this year, though most non-Government economists expect them to be higher. Stein's designated successor, Alan Greenspan, expects a high level of inflation this year-and turgid or almost imperceptible growth in the economy next year...
Hardly a man to make Panglossian predictions, Greenspan foresees an 8% inflation rate in the fourth quarter and "turgid" industrial growth and slimmer profit margins in 1975. In order to begin moving toward stabilizing the economy by 1976, he says, decisions for doing so must be made now. To help make those decisions, Greenspan is willing to take his quarter-of-a-million-dollar pay cut. "We are at a major crossroad," he says. "The actions taken in the next year or two will have a significant impact on where...
...celebrity of those piano stools, though, but to the brouhaha that followed the publication, in 1970, of her feminist doctoral thesis, Sexual Politics. Millett studied literature at Minnesota and Oxford and taught at Columbia. She had always been primarily an academic, as the book showed by combining turgid prose with a tendency to uncharitable generalization. But the burgeoning women's liberation movement needed a source book, and the press needed a symbol. In a matter of weeks, Kate Millett saw herself metamorphosed from "unknown sculptor to media...
...Communist Manifesto. The sullen, tobacco-stained genius Karl Marx and the buoyant, optimistic and modest Engels combined to make one of the most influential partnerships of all time. Marx supplied the creative thought, and Engels produced the human evidence, provided the money, and cleaned up Marx's turgid prose for the world to read. Although he was hesitant to admit it, Engels wrote most of the second and third volumes of Das Kapital from Marx's notes...
...leaf of the cavalry and coaches sparkled in the autumn sunshine. About the only sour note was sounded over the commemorative poem written by Sir John Betjeman; it was his first official literary effort since being named Britain's poet laureat. One Labor M.P. described the lyric as "turgid, unromantic and stamped with mediocrity," and called for Betjeman's resignation. The verse...