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The business section of Sunday's New York Times had a quiet, but definitive, feel of "Apocalypse Soon," featuring as it did three different columns arguing that the stock market was patently overvalued, that this overvaluation would eventually be corrected--perhaps in the form of a crash--and that that crash would have dramatic ripple effects on the rest of the economy as a whole even if, as seems certain it would, the Federal Reserve were to step up and cut interest rates to keep liquidity in the system.
While admitting that some Americanisms, such as teenager, babysitter, know-how, gimmick, stunt, commuter , and blurb add vigour and dynamic expression to the language, the book draws the line at diaper, drug-store , and sidewalk (for which the English have the patently superior nappy, chemist's and pavement ), and at the American habit of turning nouns into verbs (to hospitalise) [ sic ].
This is not because Bradley scored worse than Bush, but because both have led successful lives and are patently better qualified for the presidency than many citizens with higher scores.
If all politics is a lie We tell ourselves, if People who think they are Conservative have horrible Anarchic lives, raping children And people who think They are radical, and Tell you so, typically, Are repressed, authoritarian, and Thinly frigid in their Personal bearings, Leaving the world on both sides To be divided up between Aggressive territorial types Finding ideological excuses To kill other people's children-- If all this is patently, Obviously so, so that Only poetry, and not Politics can save us-- Is there any hope for us then?
Many profanities might be considered "patently offensive" descriptions of "sexual or excretory activities or organs," especially under the standards of some conservative communities.
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