Word: yourselfer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other businesses exploited the faddish fascination. Delta Airlines took out newspaper ads written in Chinese. Books about China sold briskly. The Harvard Co-op in Cambridge was offering do-it-yourself acupuncture kits with diagrams of the body's critical points-but without the needles.
Though puns may be used to political advantage-or disadvantage-punning has traditionally been more the farm of the artist than the playground of the politician. By punning, which probably derives from the Italian puntiglio (fine point), the writer grows ideas as well as wit. Aristophanes punned, with scatological exuberance...
'IF YOU remember, Tom, I pledged during the campaign that if I were elected President, the United States would remain number one in the world. And, you know, if you reflect a little, you find that this really suits the American people, because we are a number one people, we...
"Do you yourself have any political plans for the future?"
The elder Coles also urged his son to "learn to be by yourself." Bob followed that advice. He enjoys life, and his hearty laugh often sounds through his modest Concord, Mass., house. But his brother observes: "He is a predominantly inward person. The whole course of his career is solitary...