Weasel Words
King, Robert L.
poses is unsatisfying-didactic chapters Hollander as "creative mentalities." tex going) he too hurriedly formed him on elementary feminist theology, a Howard usually...
...The question in this ROBERT L. KING teaches English at the Col- will be that before God breathed into case is not: has the person died...
...It takes little imagtheology at Boston College and director of its Readers should return to Howard for the ination to go the next step...
...there is something signifi- A few of Howard's entries are British- the spinal cord where it belongs...
...Would Jeffko have a perFordham University's Lincoln Center Cam- Correspondence son declared dead, by definition, who is pus, has written for the New York Times, the fully functioning but is technically asNew York Post and other journals...
...tex going) he too hurriedly formed him on elementary feminist theology, a Howard usually analyzes...
...He is, however, wrong tion...
...lists...
...Most of us, I Institute for the Study of Religious Education same reasons they do to Orwell, but un- believe, would be quite reluctant to deand Service...
...To the Editors: While I agree with Walter sleep Generally, his good humor and com- G. Jeffko in "Redefining Death" [July the earth shall sleep...
...the lungs, of course, to start his neocor- And such a question is not settled by Commonweal: 478...
...gives the speaker a brief pause during that formal definition into general The earth shall be remade...
...not afford to be complacent about the what it is not...
...Moment in time "fills this moment in article is the attempt at a formal definiThe earth-moving day is here...
...What is original in the strength...
...And to mix the requirement These books are as far apart in worth as power of dishonest language...
...mon sense prevail: 6] that careful distinctions are needed, I We are waking up and rising, Environment is "one of the woolliest do not agree that he has been successful and soon our sister will know her vogue words of our time...
...A few lines from the poem jargon can sometimes be useful, and his Spontaneous confusion "Call" convey this sense of the whole self-indulgence extends only to a few unwork: usual words ("borborygm") and to liter- Lexington, Kentucky It has been said that while women ary allusions, mostly to Shakespeare...
...fortunately few will benefit from Pei's clare a person dead should brain activity ARTHUR A. COHEN has a new novel, Acts of last work...
...However, both fail...
...Mass at their funerals...
...virtually no one would, by definition, But, Howard commits his infrequent declare a person dead who has cerebral ]REVIEWERS faults following standards...
...stem in his cranium instead of down in And yet...
...The explanation ago by Hans Jonas...
...fails on two & Row, $9.95, 208pp„ WEASEL led down the road to ruin by lying prop- counts...
...ration and circulation...
...in the path of currently developed brain MICHAEL CROSBY, advertising manager at pacemakers...
...The former is not STEVEN KROLL is a New York writer and ROBERT L. KING yet technically possible, but may follow...
...But listen...
...physiological terms...
...Philip Howard is sharp, even surprising, on ..organism as a whole" only creates conHoward gives us short essays on forty- feedback when he distinguishes its true, fusion...
...assisted mechanically...
...Massachusetts...
...To make my point briefly, Jack O'Brien, Ann Landers and Xaviera OED without attribution...
...Pei's are activity but has respirator assisted respi= FATHER RICHARD P. McBRIEN is professor of made in pursuit of a wide audience...
...Howard cites the Ox- on the literary persona, and he lifts an "spontaneous activity is essential to an ford English Dictionary...
...tion of the spontaneous activity of an You Don't Mean, by Mario Pei, Harper "A century that has seen great nations organism as a whole...
...but: how lege of Our Lady of the Elms in Chicopee, Adam the breath of life (aiming through should the person (patient) be dealt with...
...My point here was made well long Theological Seminary in Washington...
...sisted in all essential physiological funcFRANCINE CARDMAN teaches at Wesley (Continued from page 450) tions...
...In these books, the journalist as well as respiration and circulation be Theft, due out early next year...
...1) The article does not tell us WORDS, by Philip Howard, Oxford Uni- aganda, like sheep to the shambles, can- what "an organism as a whole" is, only versity Press, $10, 175pp...
...Pei endorses oversimple definition of irony from the organism...
...cant here about the mysteries of God's isms (we don't yet call a rubbish dump a PAUL RAMSEY love and call, the depths and struggles of "civic amenity site"), but his book is for Professor of Relgion, spirit-in-flesh, the remaking of the anyone who cares about responsible us- Princeton University church, the splendid power of wom- age...
...His comments on quantum are activity" is troublesome since it is diunder headings like "The Shrill Voice of similarly exact...
...It does not help to declare that Forked Tongue...
...time with effortless, bland noise, and so tion of death and the effort to translate We women wake to move in fire...
...which he can select his next platitude...
...in providing them...
...critic presently working on a novel...
...FRANCINE CARDMAN "Fine words butter no parsnips .. . The formal definition-"Death here is violence and confusion are not removed defined as the total and permanent cessaWEASEL WORDS: The Art of Saying What by calling them confrontation...
...the late Mario Pei glances at precise meaning from the one of "bogus emphasis on "cessation of spontaneous hundreds, perhaps thousands, of words science...
...quark is "a delightful rected to respiratory and circulatory funcWomen's Lib" and "Education's piece of jargon...
...He is secure enough to know that ankind...
...2) More importantly, the heavy four terms...
...far outdistances the academician...
...Pei frequently out of dust of the ground: he put the brain showy chapter on physics and theology...
...of total cessation with the designation they are distinct in approach...
Vol. 106 • August 1979 • No. 15
