Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eroded Authority. Word of Arnheiter's aberrations quickly reached higher headquarters-most likely via the chaplain corps. Three months after he assumed command, the Vance was ordered to Manila for refitting and Arnheiter was summarily relieved. After a subsequent hearing, at which the "Mad Log" was rewritten into 38 pages of anti-Arnheiter testimony, Vice Admiral B. J. Semmes Jr., chief of naval personnel, declared Arnheiter guilty of "a gross lack of judgment and inability to lead people." Arnheiter now holds a minor post in San Francisco; Hardy, 32, is a lieutenant commander in Key West, Fla.; Generous...
Anarchists of the Anti-Word...
What stimulates excitement and controversy about the Living Theater is that it uses audiences almost like guinea pigs, trying to incite them to active emotional responses rather than passive mental assent. Critics have called this assault on the senses "the drama of the anti-word" or "the theater of attrition." Dialogue and plot are reduced to a minimum and replaced by improvisation, ritual and a grotesquerie of violence and the macabre...
...choose to be a common company," says Ewing Marion Kauffman, 51, founder, president and principal stockholder of Kansas City-based Marion Laboratories, Inc. "It is our right to be uncommon if we can." Uncommon is hardly the word for Kauffman's pharmaceutical firm, which was founded on poker winnings, grew by selling ground oyster shells, and has made wealthy people out of typists and maintenance men who bought stock for around 66? a share when the company was young. They have since seen their shares increase...
PHONY, kitch and camp are examples of a useful phenomenon: every so often a word breezes into common usage meaning many things and weaving together previously unrelated objects into a new category. Novelist Vladimir Nabokov offers a new word, poshlost (pronounced push-lost). In Russian it means vulgarity or triteness, but in an interview with Author Herbert Gold in the current Paris Review, Nabokov so expands the definition that it makes one wonder how the English language ever got along without...