Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Unless it was beyond my control," General William Childs Westmoreland has said proudly, "I have never left any job that I hadn't finished." Last week, his task in Viet Nam far from finished, Westy got the word that he would be coming home to replace General Harold Johnson in July as Army Chief of Staff...
Such is Jordan's mood toward the men it calls fedayeen -the Arabic word for freedom fighters. Though he has in the past often declared his opposition to the terrorists King Hussein last week changed his tune, defended 'those who struggle against Israelis occupying Arab territory. But to a population that is 60% Palestinian, 100% Arab-and sick to death of being humbled by Israeli planes and tanks-the fedayeen already have become national folk heroes. Accounts of their successful sabotage missions are headlined in the press. Photographs portraying their martyred dead are plastered all over Amman...
DAVID BROWER is a conservationist. Think about Walt Disney, birdwatching, and Peter Rabbit, and all the things that the word probably suggests, and then forget them; because when Brower starts talking about what we're doing to nature, he sometimes gets angry, the things he says aren't usually very pretty, and he has few kind words for Smokey the Bear...
...March 20 lecture on "Word Music," Borges proposed, "Poetry is not trying to take a set of logical coins and work them into magic. Rather, it is bringing words back to their original source. . . . Words began, in a sense, as magic" (at a time when "light" actually flashed, and "night" was darker than now), and later assumed abstract meanings: "Language did not come from libraries," but from fishermen, fields and dawn. "We know men sang before they talked. . . . We feel the last line of the first chapter of Finnegan's Wake could only have been written after centuries of literature...
Borges says he has had stage fright in every lecture he's given (in Europe and the Americas) since he began in 1945. 'I feel very miserable. Five minutes before I begin to talk I wonder if I will be able to say a single word. I say the first sentence. Then I keep listening to what I am saying, and somehow...