Word: verbalizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...volume, priced at a modest $60, contains more than 13,000 new and often exotic words, or new meanings for old words, along with some 125,000 quotations that illustrate their origins* and usage. Browsing through its 1,282 pages is like rummaging through a kind of verbal attic of folkways and attitudes that have shaped the language over the past half-century. The editors have placed their imprimatur on "McCarthyism," "McLuhanism," "Maoism" and "Naderism." They have acknowledged a menagerie of latter-day elves and monsters, from "Hobbits" (Novelist J.R.R. Tolkien's small, furry earth dwellers) to "Nessie...
...since 1965, when Abel defeated David McDonald by a gossamer 10,000 votes, has the contest for the 1.4 million-man union's top job been so embittered. Since last fall, when Sadlowski announced his candidacy (TIME, Sept. 20), both sides have traded vicious verbal blows, and sometimes physical ones: a Sadlowski volunteer was shot through the neck while handing out leaflets in Houston. The battle has spilled over into the courts. Three weeks ago, McBride filed a suit charging that Sadlowski had received illegal campaign contributions from employers in other industries; last week Sadlowski countered by filing...
President Bok has made it all too clear that although he may morally support AA and believes Harvard is a better place for minority students (whom he emphasizes to mean only blacks) he is unwilling to transform verbal commitments into action. He attacks the mechanism to achieve equal opportunity as a bureaucratic hassle. He staunchly refuses to admit Harvard's noncompliance or its begrudged attitude toward AA. AA is viewed as obstructing departmental autonomy, usurping departmental authority and violating the tenet that universities are special places where government should not tamper with the education of "mind and body." This stand...
...school prayer in the '60s and commercialism in the '70s. But the author's unwritten motto is always Multum in parvo (much in little). He avoids issues like integration and Viet Nam; the sharpest attacks concern mistakes that are less global than verbal. When the Reader's Digest changes one of his sentences, for example, he fires off a note to the publisher announcing that, unlike the vanilla bean, White does not wish to be extracted...
...relying on the intentionally vague but emotionally arousing word "regime," this statement clarifies neither the living conditions of South Korean citizens nor the nature of their protests against the government. The letter then refers to "Harvard's long history as a bulwark of U.S. imperialism," another blatant example of verbal deceit. Such a comment makes no relevant point about either Harvard or American history, and it has no function other than to incite the uninformed passions that the League seeks to exploit...