Word: savingly
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Help wanted: a '70s version of humorist to save the '70s version of prig. This once and future humorist may already be present. Imprisoned inside every prig, a comedian is signaling wildly to get out. And that, finally, is the metaphor of cataplexy...
...prig builds reverent statues to himself. The comedian-if he can break out-crayons mustaches on them to save the prig from his own miscasting. What makes the '70s no laughing matter is this: without comedians to deter them, little prigs tend to grow into big fanatics. Bombs being what they are nowadays, a custard pie in the face of a few prigs is a cheap price for civilization to pay. Bombs and bomb throwers we've got. But where are the pies? Where are those pie throwers? They'll come in their own time and their...
...started as a save-a-castle plan. Built in the 16th century in the lush lowlands 30 miles west of Paris, the château has long claimed a treasury of priceless furniture, rare tapestries and a collection of 60,000 documents and letters from kings, ministers and literary figures. Chopin's piano-a gift from George Sand-graced the gilded music room; the original manuscripts of two unpublished Chopin waltzes were discovered in a linen closet...
Fortunately, the Egyptians managed to save for themselves some of the best of their art. They enshrined these pieces in the Cairo Museum, and taken together, the collection is a forceful demonstration that Egyptian art need take second place to none. Three years ago, Perry Rathbone, director of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts and a dedicated admirer of Egyptian art, dispatched an emissary to Cairo to wangle a truly representative selection for a tour of the U.S. Rathbone got the cooperation of the Metropolitan in New York and later the Los Angeles County Museum to share the huge...
Planned to save words in print and speech, acronyms have created new ones instead (radar, sonar, loran) and even corrupted spelling, producing "snick" out of SNCC and "rotsy" from ROTC. Today inappropriate acronyms are a constant hazard. When the Nixon Administration set up its new Office of Management and Budget (OMB), for example, it seemed clear that the awkward initials were invented to avoid the more logical name. Bureau of Management and Budget (BOMB). Military men seldom avoid such errors. The Army is especially prone to fatuous acronyms like BAMBI, which stands for Ballistic Missile Boost Intercept. Some civilian agencies...