Word: wording
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...possessing a deep-seated faith, an unassuming countenance, and a pilgrim's progress earned through unselfish devotion to a cause-an idealistic mission that, having bettered mankind by weekly preachings for more than 40 years, will continue to do so as long as "journalism," the word he made great, continues to exist...
...grocery stores, and pool halls with posters informing residents of its legal services. And clients began to come in, either on their own initiative, or on the advice of social agencies. As the caseload grew from an October average of 16 per week to 25 per week in February, word of mouth became CLAO's best advertisement. "We've been getting a lot of clients," Garrity says, "who just say they've heard somewhere that those fellows at 245 Broadway are a pretty good bunch of lawyers...
...File and Forget," an extended account of the donderheads in the book-publishing business, could do with some more rehearsal. So could the short opening and closing numbers, the "Word Dances," in which couples whirl about the stage, freezing in various attitudes as one character or another delivers a cartoon caption. Every unscheduled shuffle or concession to momentum is instantly apparent and instantly annoying...
...Wilson will preside over the activities of more than 600 men who daily crowd octagonal trading pits, flailing the air as they shout "Buy!" or "Sell!" The commodities market is immensely complex, and word of a drought in India or a soaking rain on the Dakota plains has an electric effect on futures trading. Even seasoned brokers, whether they deal in grains, soybean oil or steer carcasses, find the trading nerve-racking and treacherous...
Persona (the ancient Latin word for mask) is too deliberately difficult to rank with Bergman's best. But in an era when the director who dares to repeat himself is rare indeed-when the cinematic world is full of one-shot wonders, Bergman's consistency is itself refreshing. His bleak, unsparing vision of the condition of man remains his private property. Persona is one more acre of that estate-often tilled, perhaps, but still worth the plowing...