Word: madison
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from coast to coast. It offers seats to a wide variety of entertainment, including the U.S. Open Tennis matches in Forest Hills, N.Y., the Philadelphia Folk Festival in Old Pool Farm, Pa., the home games of six major-league baseball teams and most events at Manhattan's new Madison Square Garden. According to President John Quinn Jr., T.R.S. now sells 1,000,000 tickets a month and expects to break even by late...
Likewise, New Yorker Music Critic Winthrop Sargeant attacked the suffix -wise, as in taxwise. He called it "a Madison Avenue locution which should be avoided by every civilized person." Author Basil Davenport grudgingly approved advise in the sense of notify. Even so, he ruled, it is permissible only "in business English and Army English, if there is any excuse for the existence of these bastard twins...
...country's increasing ignorance of Latin was reflected in a question to the panel about media as a singular term and medias as a plural. Taking a swipe at Madison Avenue, Columnist Russell Baker declared: "In Latin, prefer Cicero to BBDO." Asked to rule on erratas as a plural form, Poet Donald Davidson despaired: "To think that we have lived to see the day when such a question can be asked...
...MICHAEL SELLS Madison...
Before the Senate minority leader can cast himself in the role of a latter-day James Madison, however, there is a maze of constitutional questions to be negotiated. All but seven of the 33 petitions, for instance, were passed by state legislatures that had not yet been reapportioned to reflect the one-man, one-vote ruling which Dirksen wants to overturn. This has already resulted in a court challenge to the validity of Utah's resolution. Suits elsewhere are likely...