Word: shorthanded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Maoist postermakers have developed a shorthand of invective in the war of words. One favorite reference is to a "dog in the water," meaning an enemy who has been brought down but should be finished off to avoid all risks of a future comeback. "Black gangsters" are anti-Mao intellectuals, whose output is likely to be "poisonous weeds." Enemies of Mao who do not quite qualify as intellectuals are labeled "ghosts and monsters" who follow the "black line." The difficulty of distinguishing friendly from unfriendly posters, especially when nearly all invoke the blessing of Mao for their point of view...
Among the 70-odd writers and critics present in the yellow brick Moscow Oblast Court must have been one adept at shorthand, because this account of the two-day trial is detailed and chillingly convincing. How it reached the West, British Editor-Translator Max Hayward does not say, but it must have followed a secret route like the one that brought him Sinyavsky-Tertz's The Trial Begins in 1960. That grotesque account of a woman who procures an abortion during the black days of the Stalinist "Doctor's Plot" of 1952 was a key element...
...they would both attend the University of Texas, he to study for a master's degree in business administration and she to work on a bachelor's degree "in I don't know what"-and Luci hinted that she might also take courses in typing and shorthand, which her father considers "the two greatest virtues" a woman can have. What would they do for income? "I haven't heard," she said archly, "of a lot of schools that give salaries." Insisting nonetheless that they would support themselves, she confided that her fiance "has pretty much saved...
There is, of course, no such thing as the Asian mind-there are dozens. An Indonesian is as different from a Japanese as a Frenchman from an American. Generalizations never do justice to national differences, but in a kind of shorthand it might be said that the Chinese are practical, pragmatic and irreligious; the Indians are impractical, theoretical and vaguely religious; the Japanese are ritualistic, restrained, esthetic and authoritarian; the Koreans are undisciplined, imaginative and creative; the Laotians are sensitive, pacific and passive; the Vietnamese are sensitive, combative and active. When the great Indian teacher and writer Rabindranath Tagore visited...
...plowed into the right side of the Valkyrie's delta wing, rolled leftward across its top, damaging the B-70's tall, right vertical stabilizer and snapping off the left one. Over the intercom to ground control crackled Cotton's voice: "Midair, mid-air"-Air Force shorthand for collision. Then, sounding almost laconic, Cotton radioed guidance to the stricken ship's two-man crew: "O.K., it looks like your tail is gone . . . You'll probably spin." And as the B70 did wind into a flat spin: "Bail out." Then: "One capsule has ejected...