Word: vacationers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LANGUAGE ON VACATION, by Dmitri A. Borgmann. The author is a word fanatic of the most ingenious order, producing a compendium of resolutely useless, teasingly fascinating information about anagrams, antigrams, palindromes. How many people can look at Satan and see Santa?
If the program is passed before the Christmas vacation, Dean Ford said, the new program could go into effect next year. Ford feels that even if Faculty debates delay passage of the program until early 1966, the new system can be in operation next year.
Defeat came at the hands of a Conservative, Liberal, Christian and Center Party coalition that had been trying for years to unseat Labor, to no avail.In 1961 it came tantalizingly close, winning a 74-74 tie in the Storting (Parliament), but Gerhardsen hung on to a razor's-edge...
If the trustees had any reason besides politics for firing Steven, they were not making it public. One of them said privately that Steven's editorial policies had "embarrassed" the group. Steven is not everybody's idea of an editor, since he goes heavy on local sensationalism, as...
LANGUAGE ON VACATION by Dmitri A. Borgmann. 318 pages. Scribner. $6.95.