Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they can't maintain it without twitching, Xylocaine, an anesthetic ointment, should be applied to the face before important meetings. It is all reminiscent of former Adman Shepherd Mead's 1952 book, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Mead, now living in Switzerland, says, "I wonder if they'll make a musical out of Michael's book...
...with just a handful of people monitoring the cold zones, it's no wonder that water could begin leaking from a radiator on the fourth floor of Eliot House and not be detected until it hit basement level...
...terms of the hero's feudal obligations to his old retainers. Even the most determined revolutionary has to abandon class analysis or feminist wrath in this world of the peerage, where such things are patently absurd. All you can do is give in to gooey-eyed sentimentality, and wonder with, say Judith Taverner if she has offended the patronesses of Almack's beyond recall...
Reading Period is upon us without warning. Ever wonder why the films during the Depression employed huge chorus lines, gaudy costumes and wealthy characters? Now you know--to provide an escape from reality. There are a few choice diversions this coming weekend for recalcitrant scholars fleeing Chem 20 or the Ides of March...
...however, "voices are passive, modifiers are abstract and qualifying clauses abound. The general tone is one of utmost timidity, going far beyond sensible caution." Crichton finds it all very puzzling. "An eminent surgeon strides purposefully into the operating room each day," he says, "but to read his papers, you wonder how he finds the courage to get out of bed in the morning." Crichton has a theory about the use of obfuscating medical language. In explaining it, however, he unwittingly demonstrates that jargon is highly contagious: "Medical obscurity may now serve an infra-group recognition function, rather like a secret...