Word: worded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Barbara Martinez was scared by someone else's anger ("A Helping Hand Rebuffed" Editorial Notebook, Oct. 22), but perhaps she would consider how she would feel if someone she hadn't seen and didn't know had taken hold of her on the street, without having spoken a single word, much less asked her permission...
Another point raised by a Response staffer is that word-of-mouth recommendations are hard to come by in the world of hotlines. Comments like, "Hey, this horrible thing happened to me and I called Response and they were incredibly helpful and supportive" don't usually come up unsolicited in everyday conversation. On the other hand, in the Woody Allen age going to therapy may be something easy to do. Then again, in the self-help, pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps American culture, seeking help is never easy, talking about it even harder...
...somewhat: it can be a violent place, and most people I've met there don't like homosexuals. But the deliberate savagery of this murder, a hate crime, shocked people, because, for the most part, they have what the writer William S. Burroughs '36, adopting a century-old slang word for honest thieves, appropriated to his own purpose. They're Johnsons--folk who mind their own business and let others do the same...
...Credo best exemplified Beethoven's gifts for text-painting. In a description of Christ's resurrection, the chorus vividly repeated the word "descendit," (he descended) in a motif that alternated between the orchestra and chorus. The forceful repetitions ended with a descending solo clarinet figure. This line, which was unfortunately marred by a bad note, fell, as if from the heavens, to the pure tones of the unaccompanied quartet intoning the "Et incarnatus..." The Credo ended on a lighter note with a playful fugue on the text of "Et vitam venturi saeculi," (and the life of the world to come...
Mideast talks were supposed to make President Clinton look good at home. Instead they threatened to plunge him into further domestic problems Friday -- especially with Washington's defense and intelligence communities -- after Israeli officials began spreading word that Clinton had agreed to release convicted spy Jonathan Pollard as part of a Middle East peace deal. "The President can't really afford to release Pollard immediately without it looking like he was blackmailed," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "Clinton had rejected the Israelis' request to release him as recently as October 1 -- so there'll have to be some papering...