Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There's a lot of difference between the spoken and the written word, and if you don't believe it go listen to one of the genial, not-too-soft-spoken gents who make their living beating the drums for college football teams around the countryside, listen to them talk and go off by yourself and read one of their effusive press releases. You wouldn't think the man was talking about the same bunch of pigskin pushers...
Exceptions do seep through every once in a while, though. This week Dartmouth football publicity went overboard for a pair of ends, Mo Monahan and George Rusch, who, if you want to believe the written word, should both be out earning a living for their poor mothers with the Chicago Bears, instead of hanging around Hanover. Superlatives drip from a page and a half of purple prose, but before the final period was inscribed on the release, the more cautious of the writers had his covering sentence. "No matter how superior Holy Cross proves to be against a Dartmouth team...
Last week the U.S. Consulate in Toronto announced that expatriated Americans may regain their lost citizenship simply by applying to any U.S. diplomatic officer in Canada before next Aug. 7. For the repatriation process, Ottawa's Le Droit coined the word-of-the-week: "reyankification...
Gifford's views are those of a forthright "modernist" to whom orthodoxy is merely another word for fossilization. He sees all theology as in constant need of revision and reconstruction in the light of religious experience rather than patristic authority. Dogmatists will find plenty in Dr. Gifford's pages to make them jump. The book's final chapter is an eloquent statement of the position of Protestant liberals. Excerpts...
...assume, Mr. Contratto," said Heidt coldly, "that you are a man of your word...