Word: shorthand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Comparative Guide to American Colleges, by James Cass and Max Birnbaum ($8.95; paperback, $3.95), is a recently published ambitious consumer's guide to 1,132 colleges, with descriptions that are fair, yet frank, avoiding the dishonesty and exaggeration of some school catalogues and the dry statistical shorthand of other compilations...
...White House team. Quartered in Sherman Adams' old office in the southwest wing of the White House, he was the mysterious, slightly-out-of-focus fellow who seldom had his picture taken or got in the papers but who knew everything that was going on. A whiz at shorthand, he sat in on meetings of the Cabinet, on breakfasts with congressional leaders, and occasionally on sessions of the National Security Council. He had access to any national secret...
...subtler, more evocative effects. A pitcher will have a gracefully elongated spout that suggests the head and neck of a crane. Undulating snakes represent water, the perennial need of hot, parched lands. While the Iranian artists frequently represented animals naturalistically, they occasionally resorted to a kind of symbolic shorthand that foreshadows the geometric forms of modern art, using circles for eyes, U-shaped mouths and heart-shaped ears. The millennial parade culminates, fittingly if inevitably, with a sumptuous 16th century Persian rug, the art object that has been one of the world's household words in all recent centuries...
...total, he located the origins of 79% of Sudbury's first landowners. He spent two summers in England finding and photostating-if necessary with a portable copier, wired to his car battery-the relevant 17th century church records, legal notes, manor rolls and accounts. Deciphering the Latin shorthand and illegible handwriting of the period took hundreds of hours more...
Developed by Sir James Pitman, a Conservative M.P. and grandson of shorthand's Sir Isaac, the Initial Teaching Alphabet is no Shavian attempt to supersede the regular alphabet. Strictly a teaching tool, it aims to overcome the disparity between the sounds that English-speaking tots know in their heads and the symbols they see on the page. In essence, the child confronts a decoding problem. Unhappily, the code is crazy. The 40-odd phonemes (distinct sound units) of English are spelled in 2,000 different ways, and the letters vary bafflingly in their capital, lower case, printed and handwritten...