Word: wording
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Strout is at his best, right there with the politicians, describing what goes on in their heads and evaluating the quality thereof. Strout is a remarkably acute judge of character. On Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R.-Wisc.), in early 1950 before most knew him well and before McCarthyism was a word: "It would seem easy to pin down the preposterous utterances, but no; McCarthy is as hard to catch as a mist--a mist that carries lethal contagion." On Vice President Richard Nixon: "In politics this quiet young man is a killer....He is out for the kill and the scalp...
...with Salisbury's army during the transition period. In exchange, Carrington satisfied their longstanding insistence on "equal status" with the Salisbury forces by including the sentence that the guerrillas would be subject to the orders of an interim British commander. Spokesmen for the Muzorewa delegation called the 15-word addendum a face-saving artifice to mask "a total capitulation by the Patriotic Front to the original British position." But the Front, according to a jubilant spokesman, took Carrington's statement to mean that "our forces now are lawful forces in the country. What more do we want...
...change anybody. All you can do is set up a supportive, warm, natural environment and then a natural process takes over." But all is not sweetness and light. At endless and merciless dorm meetings, rationalizations and excuses are brusquely dismissed as "bullshit," perhaps the most commonly used word on campus...
...rather cultish audience. The 47-year-old violinist has been a primary member of the Creative Construction Company and the Revolutionary Ensemble, two groups that have provided important alternatives to the stale conventions of the post-Coltrane New York avant-garde. All the same, Jenkins is hardly a household word, even in the rarefied vocabulary of the modern jazz enthusiast...
Marley and his fellow Rastafarians use the word "Babylon" to describe the modern, U.S.-influenced Jamaican society. The songs on this album emphasize a historical perspective of Marley's battle against Babylon. The album cover features a quote attributed to Marcus Garvey, the late Jamaican black leader: "A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture is like a tree without roots." The inner-sleeve has a centuries-old diagram illustrating how to best pack black Africans into a slave ship. Marley's songs elaborate on these themes of black exploitation...