Word: wording
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another Secretary. At midweek, as word began to circulate that the nomination might be off again, Finch was at home relaxing when the phone rang. It was a reporter from the Los Angeles Times, who asked him what he would do if Knowles was rejected by Nixon. "He'd have to find another Secretary," Finch was quoted as saying. (He subsequently denied making the remark; still later he admitted having said it, but insisted that he had not really meant it as a serious statement...
...next day, in the course of episodic conversations during a five-hour White House visit, Finch found himself losing the argument over Knowles. Finally the President gave his old friend and longtime political partner the word: Knowles was not worth the bitter fight. Finch issued a statement in which he loyally-if not convincingly-took "full responsibility for the delay of this appointment...
...bone. "It's that pig," an off-screen voice tells her, adding as an afterthought, "with those English tourists mixed in." "The ones from the Rolls-Royce?" she asks. "There must be some of your husband too," the voice answers. She continues eating with no reaction. The word "fin" appears on the screen, enlarged at once to "fin du conte" and then changed to "fin du cinema." The sequence reveals Godard's awareness that in Weekend he destroyed the only cinema he loves--the American narrative ("conte") film...
...Great Orm, I sat down with a British newspaper and a friend to read "Police Arrest 179 at Harvard." It might have been any other school, save for the comparatively big play and for a few proper nouns. I had often been instructed not to use the word "campus" in connection with Harvard, for Harvard was not supposed to have a campus. But here it was being used a freely as if the story were about Berkeley or Columbia. And University Hall all of a sudden seemed large and communal...
WHEN I say romanticism, I am not being purposely insulting. I am not talking about Carlyle or Clean Gene, though clearly the word is the same. Nor is romanticism something to be viewed strictly in contrast with radicalism...