Category: words

  • Household Saint

    lareviewofbooks: DAVID ROTH Roberto Clemente Topps™ Baseball Card 1971 Wilfred Santiago21: The Story of Roberto Clemente Fantagraphics, 2011. 200 pp. Roberto Clemente died on New Year’s Eve, 1972, when a small plane carrying Clemente, four other men, and 16,000 pounds of aid bound for earthquake-wracked Nicaragua disappeared into the waters off Clemente’s native Puerto Rico.…

  • In Holland, we have two words for design. One is vormgeving; in German formgeben. And the other word is ontwerpen; in German entwurf. In the Anglo-Saxon language there’s only one word for design, which is design. That is something you should work out. Vormgeving is more to make things look nice. So for instance, packaging…

  • In Holland, we have two words for design. One is vormgeving; in German formgeben. And the other word is ontwerpen; in German entwurf. In the Anglo-Saxon language there’s only one word for design, which is design. That is something you should work out. Vormgeving is more to make things look nice. So for instance, packaging…

  • Palindromes are just one form of wordplay among many. There are anagrams (transpositions of the letters of a word or phrase into a new word or phrase using exactly the same letters), tautonyms (words or phrases of two or more identical parts), isograms (words containing no more than one of any letter), pangrams (groups of…

  • Palindromes are just one form of wordplay among many. There are anagrams (transpositions of the letters of a word or phrase into a new word or phrase using exactly the same letters), tautonyms (words or phrases of two or more identical parts), isograms (words containing no more than one of any letter), pangrams (groups of…

  • viafrank: Sweethearts, the seminal concrete poetry piece by Emmett Williams is back in print! A founding member of Fluxus and the concrete poetry movement, Williams made several performances and poems that stand today as defining gems of those genres. Sweethearts is an anagrammatic erotic encounter between a “he” and a “she,” whose entire vocabulary is…

  • viafrank: Sweethearts, the seminal concrete poetry piece by Emmett Williams is back in print! A founding member of Fluxus and the concrete poetry movement, Williams made several performances and poems that stand today as defining gems of those genres. Sweethearts is an anagrammatic erotic encounter between a “he” and a “she,” whose entire vocabulary is…

  • George Lakoff: It’s not in the model. It’s in the historical circumstances that surround all of this. The model is an unconscious model of values, of where their values come from, of what makes them liberals or conservatives. However, the problem is the conscious understanding. And that comes out of the Enlightenment. So, liberals are…

  • George Lakoff: It’s not in the model. It’s in the historical circumstances that surround all of this. The model is an unconscious model of values, of where their values come from, of what makes them liberals or conservatives. However, the problem is the conscious understanding. And that comes out of the Enlightenment. So, liberals are…

  • How not to screw up your career Posted on September 8, 2011 by AndrewSmith Start­ing a career is daunt­ing. Office pol­i­tics, poor man­age­ment and unchal­leng­ing work are issues that many of us will have to nav­i­gate in our jobs. Ryan Hol­i­day’s advice to young careerists is cyn­i­cal and pragmatic. The point isn’t just to prove…