Word: shorthanded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Most Demanding. He noted one failing that is so common he has an abbreviation for it. "Ltc" in Gutman's shorthand stands for "Liebestod complex," and refers to a tendency among contestants, particularly women, to choose the most demanding music. "They seem to think they haven't got a chance unless they sing something loud and dramatic," said Gutman. "These youngsters try to do things that shouldn't even be in their repertoire for another five or ten years...
Steiner's amazing lecture was taken down in shorthand and later published by the Rudolf Steiner Publishing Co., London. At the time scholars would have none of it; now they will have to accept a good deal of it as proved...
Crooks & the Cardinal. Dinneen started on the Globe in 1922, not with crooks but with a cardinal. The paper hired him as a shorthand specialist and put him to covering the late William Cardinal O'Connell. Dinneen and the cardinal got along well enough, after their fashion. Once, on a ship during a pilgrimage to Rome, Cardinal O'Connell noticed a young lady applying lipstick, upbraided her severely. That evening, while the cardinal relaxed over a glass of port and a cigar, Dinneen asked him why he had been so rough on the girl. "The Holy Virgin Mary...
...McCann read this draft to the President in his hospital room. Ike interrupted at almost every paragraph to make changes. His secretary, Mrs. Ann Whitman, took a shorthand transcription of his ideas. Next day, with only Mrs. Whitman present, Ike spent 90 more minutes revising and rewriting the second half of the speech. McCann flew back to Washington...
...paintings exhibit the same high redundancy that television pictures do. Williams College Art Professor S. Lane Faison Jr. cautioned, however, that the very best art exhibited the least redundancy, e.g., the paintings of French Post-Impressionist Paul Cézanne, who evolved a style that was a. kind of shorthand. In Cézanne's paintings, said Faison, "whole areas of information" were eliminated: "tables, fruit . . . where the light came from, what time of day it is." Redundancy in painting, added Faison, is the very thing that Cézanne was opposing...