Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PUMP HOUSE GANG and THE ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST, by Tom Wolfe. America's foremost and wittiest pop journalist presents a swinging mixed-media word show of articles about life styles and a nonfictional novel about the peregrinations of Novelist Ken Kesey and his acid-generation Pranksters...
Like all guarantees, however, Agnew's had a time limit. Asked in Las Vegas about the charge that one of the major parties was in "collusion" with George Wallace, Agnew snapped: "That charge is not sufficiently dignified to require a comment. The word 'collusion' has nasty connotations." He added with appropriate disdain: "It's as bad as 'soft on Communism...
...resources of that difficult, plastic language. Ivan Denisovich's speech is essentially free of foreign-derived words, as is the entire book. One of the prisoner-scientists in The First Circle insists on attempting what he calls "plain speech," in which non-Russian words are banished, even if puzzling archaisms must be substituted. For example, he replaces the Latin-root word kapitalizm with the old Russian word for usury, tolstosumstvo (literally, "moneybaggism"). Solzhenitsyn himself has proposed that Russian be purified in this way. His strongly held views on language not only contribute great power and control to his writing...
...indicate that Brezhnev had been the real heavy during the Moscow meetings. He would listen only to President Ludvik Svoboda, a hero of the Czechoslovak brigade that fought against the Nazis. Impatiently and arrogantly, he cut off the others in midsentence. Moreover, claimed the sources, as soon as word reached Moscow that President Johnson had left Washington's crisis atmosphere for his Texas ranch, Brezhnev and the other Russians felt assured that there would be no U.S. move to counter their invasion. Accordingly, they hardened their attitude toward the captive Czechoslovak leaders...
...prevalent suspicion that somehow you can't or won't listen to what we have been trying to say--that, come what may, you won't be stirred from your business-asusual complacency. If our generation in general, and the movement in particular, have to be described in a word or two, I would call them not a nihilistic generation but above all else a moral generation--in this time of perpetual crisis and recurrent tragedy, a desperately moral generation...