Word: wording
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bowersock has stated "enforcing was a word I never intended to use in connection with these reforms." Persuading, he adds, might be more appropriate. "We can't knock heads together in the university," Bowersock argues. "That's not the way we work." But without a few sharp raps on some professorial pates, the tutorial program can never work...
...sound that Mingus gets out of his large and motley horn section is, for want of a much better word, "sloppy" in just the way he must have wanted it. He often spoke longingly of the days when the music was less complex and the musicians less literate, when he would teach each player his part by rote--he said that that music swung more than written music ever could. At its best, this band is free and sensitive; Mingus's rhythms and harmonies are felt as well as understood. At times, the sound is thick with instruments, over-reaching...
...howling arenas of the A.C.C., where the fans are rabid and the play is hard, the word upset has lost its meaning. Probably no other conference has so many good teams, year in and year out, and about the only sure things are games between the A.C.C. and outside teams. This year, the A.C.C. is 75-15 against nonconference foes, a .833 winning percentage, which is better than that of any other major conference. Just ask Notre Dame how tough the A.C.C. is. First the No. 1 Irish lost to Maryland, then they beat North Carolina State by only...
...word from a fan in Berkeley, Calif...
Another view holds science writers themselves responsible for all the doom and gloom: because scientists write only for one another, usually in terms all but incomprehensible to lay people, word of new theories and breakthroughs is sometimes passed on to the public in overly dramatic and exaggerated form. Still, the most deadpan writing cannot disguise the drama of some of science's recent discoveries. The Big Bang theory of the universe, for example, has quite correctly convinced much of the public that the cosmos is unimaginably terrifying and violent. In the light of such findings, even theories that have...