Word: wording
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...atmosphere in Washington and reflected unfavorably on the entire Government. More practically, it would also have monopolized the time of both houses of Congress for weeks and even months. Nixon cautioned Republicans in Congress against hasty action, and G.O.P. Congressional Leaders Gerald Ford and Everett Dirksen passed the word...
...capsule from the speeding craft. Protected by a heat shield while its descent was slowing, the capsule eventually deployed a parachute and began radioing information about the temperature, pressure and chemical composition of the atmosphere. After 53 minutes of transmission, the capsule's signals abruptly ceased. With no word from the Russians, Western scientists concluded that the intense heat of the lower atmosphere had disabled the transmitters before the capsule crashed. They recalled that in 1967 a similar Russian capsule-Venus 4-had fallen silent after 90 minutes of transmission, just as it was recording a temperature...
...executive whose son was suspended from Stanford after a sit-in: "We have a great feeling of compassion toward David as his idealism clashes with organized society. But I don't approve of their tactics. There is a proper way to express dissent: through the spoken and written word." Dr. Maurice Osborne Jr., past president of the American College Health Association, is perfectly prepared to view the peaceful occupation of a building as "an honest confrontation with intellectual honesty and moral force." But Dr. Osborne, a Tufts administrator whose son was among 174 students arrested at Harvard, says that...
...Harvard, was also a student at the Institute of General Semantics in Lakeville, Conn., where he became an ardent disciple of the linguistic theories of the leading prophet of general semantics, Alfred Korzybski. In Korzyb-ski's view, the verb "to be" was a dangerous and frequently misused word that was responsible for much of mankind's semantic difficulties. Going the master one better, Bourland has led a one-man crusade for the adoption of "E-prime" -which is his name for the English language minus...
Slightly pedantic word play, cultural booby traps, brisk leaps from the Bard of Avon to the Good Ship Lollipop, elegant divertissements for all occasions ?such things can be expected of Nabokov. But that is far from all. Russian by birth, a U.S. citizen who now lives in Switzerland, he has become, at 70, the greatest living American novelist, and the most original writer and stylist since Joyce. He is also an exile, a man who has triumphantly survived this century of the refugee, a man who has lost everything, yet transformed his losses through art and levity into...