Word: lettering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They sit inconspicuously at the corner of Walker and Shepard Streets, just across from the Quad, two low-slung brick buildings. Are they apartments? offices? passersby will ask. A single metal letter set on each bright orange door gives away the contents: W, K and J, which stands for Wilbur K. Jordan '28, the University official who decided in the late '50s to supplement the Radcliffe education with the practical skills every woman needed--cooking, cleaning, family life--by building some cooperative houses near Radcliffe. These are the Jordan coops...
Kung has long declined to go to Rome unless the Vatican guarantees him an open hearing, which it has refused to do. When the decree was issued, he met with Bishop Moser, who agreed to take a letter from Kung to the Pope. After that, John Paul II held a five-hour meeting on the case with three Vatican officials, Moser and four other German bishops. The result: all participants agreed to stand firm, and Moser returned to notify the university and the education ministry of the state of Baden-Württemberg...
...letters make fine reading, but I was particularly struck by your complaint (letter 2, page 27) of a persistent heavy feeling in the chest that can only be relieved by sighing. Ralph, this is a clue. You are not just in love, you are limerent. This is a brand-new word made up by a University of Bridgeport psychologist, Dorothy Tennov, in her new book on romance, Love and Limerence. If you haven't guessed it already, limerence is the ultimate, near obsessional form of romantic love...
...front of a female reporter. Quinn had written this on the basis of a vague recollection, without bothering to recheck. The Charlotte Observer was outraged: "Such errors raise questions about the newspaper's motives as well as its competence." The Post felt obliged to run a letter from nine former members of Brzezinski's staff disputing Quinn's assertion that he had singularly failed to "inspire loyalty or affection or admiration in some group, no matter how small...
...expended on the mentally ill in I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1964) and on the deaf in In This Sign (1972). People in these stories are self-maimed, and get treated accordingly. The artistic regimen is ascetic. "Talmudic Law," one of her characters explains, "forbids the overdecorated letter, a letter for art's sake and not for the formation of legible words." Nothing is overdecorated here; Greenberg spends little time telling where her characters live or what they look like. In one story, a parent complains about a wayward son, but it is impossible to tell whether...