Word: vernacular
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...reason to hope her organization will be part of a lasting trend: According to Catholic tradition, she says, practice becomes custom and custom becomes law. "You can see examples of that happening everywhere," she explains. "The mass used to be only in Latin, now it?s in the vernacular. Once only boys could serve on the altar, now girls do as well. Before the changes actually happen, and they?re just suggested, everyone says, oh, no, that?s terrible, you can?t do that...
...challenge seriously. It's in her nature. An Army brat whose father was the last U.S. commander of the Panama Canal Zone, Hughes, 45, is the most powerful woman ever to hold a White House job. A former local TV reporter, she has a keen sense for the American vernacular, and she channels it directly into Bush's mouth. In February, when speechwriter Michael Gerson wrote an elegant, ornate script for the President's first address to Congress, Hughes marveled at its beauty--and then rewrote most of it in the plain language the President feels comfortable speaking...
...challenge seriously. It's in her nature. An Army brat whose father was the last U.S. commander of the Panama Canal Zone, Hughes, 45, is the most powerful woman ever to hold a White House job. A former local TV reporter, she has a keen sense for the American vernacular, and she channels it directly into Bush's mouth. In February, when speechwriter Michael Gerson wrote an elegant, ornate script for the President's first address to Congress, Hughes marveled at its beauty--and then rewrote most of it in the plain language the President feels comfortable speaking...
...main story consists of two parts. One is domestic. At home, a familiar drama is unfolding. It is propelled by the "contradictions," to recall the Marxian vernacular, between a frozen power structure and the uncontrollable dynamics of an ever-freer market...
...study of vernacular culture, according to Donoghue, often involves...