Word: variant
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...portrayal. But they cannot expect to grasp the true meaning and depth of the Negro's situation without experiencing confusion, threats, and perhaps much worse. To think otherwise is, I believe, to deny Baldwin's characterization of the Negro's reality and to seek shelter under a retarded variant of liberalism...
...regards what Cowan calls the stereotyped view of the "white liberal." I nowhere in my letter referred to the notion of "white liberal." I spoke of a particular variant of liberalism whose features I suggested by reference to Baldwin's query of Robert Kennedy's observation on a 40-year time schedule for a Negro President of the U.S. It so happens thatt many Indian Americans, Chinese Americans, and Negro Americans share this variant of liberalism and I had no intention of reserving it for White Americans...
...newest variant of the appeal to sophistication is that made by needle-sharp President William Bernbach of Manhattan's Doyle Dane Bernbach, who has wowed the ad industry with his grain-of-salt Volkswagen ads playing up qualities that would normally be considered shortcomings ("Think small"). Though some admen still stubbornly insist that "humor doesn't sell," the evidence is that nowadays it does. The major factor in making Duluth's Chun King Corp. a nationally known enterprise has been the zany commercials for the company's prepared Chinese food written by Hollywood's Stan...
...feel as much at home as possible.'' A testing psychologist at George Fry said: "I wait until I have him almost supine. After that, he reveals himself quickly and I learn a great deal about the man." The Hippocratic oath, of course, does not enter into this variant of the "doctor-patient relationship," and the tester tells all to management, as he was hired...
...Variant spellings are riding high in pop larity as a way to give special distinction to familiar - and some not so familiar -names. Anna becomes Annie or Annya, Laurie becomes Lori, Carrie becomes Cari. Billie becomes Billye. Cheryl is also spelled Sheryle. Cherol and Sheril...