Word: verbs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...various messages with details that only the murderer could have known. Jean-Luc had told him, the killer reported, how he had run away from home after lifting 15 francs from his mother's purse. He was tired of doing his homework (his last assignment: to conjugate the verb rire, to laugh), and when he left his parents' house on Paris' middle-class Rue de Naples, he was wearing a tan corduroy jacket and carrying a Bugs Bunny comic book. He had a spot of mercurochrome on one leg ("I can no longer remember which," the killer apologized...
Once upon the Champs-Elysees, every girl had bee-stung lips and hips, and hair that could tumble into a pavilion of sex. With a kind of languorous felinity, all those women looked like the perfect tense of the verb avoir. The storied avenue might as well have been called the Rue Bardot...
...more that he composed himself. But also, as The Merry Muses makes startlingly clear, he scrubbed and reworked some of these materials to create some of his most famous poems. One such poem with a bawdy original is Comin' Thro' the Rye, in which a much earthier verb appears in the line: "Gin a body kiss a body/ Need a body cry." Another ballad, John Anderson, My Jo, is known to every schoolboy as a touching tribute to the strength of marital affection in old age: its source, doubtless known to every schoolboy in all Scotland, turns...
Negociar, or Discutir. The sticking point was a matter of semantics-a single verb in the agreement, but an all-important one. The Spanish-language version read "negociar"-to negotiate. The English version read "discuss." Panamanians insisted that since the working language of the OAS meetings was Spanish, their version was correct, and suggested that U.S. Envoy Martin, who does not speak Spanish, was confused. At first, the diplomats considered using the word discutir. But a Spanish-language purist objected that discutir implied argumentative discussion. Thus negociar, a softer word that means both discuss and negotiate, was substituted. Unconfused...
...musical Jennie was the biggest money loser, since its nut was $550,000 and it ran only ten weeks. The best play to fall was Jean Anouilh's The Rehearsal (it lost $40,000). Other foldees: Terence Rattigan's Man and Boy ($90,000 down), The Irregular Verb to Love ($35,000), Love and Kisses ($100,000), Double Dublin ($45,000). This crop was quickly followed by Tennessee Williams' new version of The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More...