European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 02, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes wednesday october 2,1985 columns & comments today s crossword language thai has impacted society by Mary Mcgrory the Oiler Day. I gave my name to the Secretary of a Man who almost surely would not Call me Back and she asked. Can you spell it Sil Cully. I replied of course i can. Do you think that i am. In addition to being the kind or person whose Call Syner Boss does not return illiterate or retarded i like the Way the airlines do it. How arc you spelling hat they ask. The use of inc present participle gives me the feeling that i am a creature of infinite whim Likely to spell my name one Way one Day another the next. I want to say let s Sec this is tuesday i guess today it will be. The airlines have other forms of speech that catch my car. For instance they will Tell you when the departure is delayed thai we arc waiting for other  that Means that the plane you hoped to Board in Washington in 15 minutes has conked out and that the air lir has to Send in a substitute from Dallas or Seattle. Until i knew this i spent Many anxious hours wonder ing what equipment we were waiting for a Wing a engine a Tail the syrupy Send off by the stewardess excuse me flight attendant is another favorite. On behalf of Captain Muldoon and the entire flight Crew we would like to thank you for flying sincere airlines this  the entire always reminds me of a famous cartoon by Carl Rose. It shows a pack of hounds being blessed by a Clergyman while one glowering Beagle sits apart. It called the  i wander if there is an atheist on the Crew some Jenni or Bobbi who is at that moment cursing under her breath and ramming things into those Little Metal drawers in the Galley not thanking anyone wishing she were Back i Bloomington ind. This is not a Good time for phrase seekers. The Federal government which can be a Mother Lodi of evasive deceptive verbiage is not producing much. Ronald Reagan is one who quoted other people s one liners Maks my  or you Ain t seen nut Hin  it says a great Deal about inc stale of inc language that the most i Iotch set of words from the recent Campaign where s the beef?." which was spoken by the loser came out of a hamburger commercial. Since the Dupai u e of Alexander let me caveat that Haig no one in the Cabinet has shown any linguistic distinction. The formulations have run to the defiantly preposterous As in peacekeeper for the my missiles and Freedom fighter for an cd som Cista guardsman who is burning Down peasant villages. The Only phrase that May make it to the mainstream is constructive engagement a term of aggressive vacuity that Means smiling while you watch someone playing with fire. Former budget director David Stockman who recently left the government has received an Advance of $2 million for his memoirs although nothing indicates he is a Wordsmith. He has Given us in House a phrase that so infuriates one of the editors of the Washington Post that he has forbidden its use in his jurisdiction. Stock Man must also answer for out years a term that adds Murk to budget discussions. It Means future years but the use of out suggests the speaker is in and even in  i regret to report that the noun is losing its War wit the verb. Such Ordinary assaults As it will Impact my Kitchen floor and you Access the Alley by the Delica Tessen have resulted in the taking of much ground. The transformers greatest Victory however is the capture of Parent a straightforward term for a Mother or a father that has been verbalized As i renting a maddeningly Mush word that redefines the whole Dicey interminable business of bringing up children As some kind of process for which you can take courses. A Parent is what you Are not what you do. Surrender is also imminent in the struggle against the use of i when me is mandatory. The rout of the objective Case was completed ondynasty." i heard Ali Macgraw explaining Why she is so crazy about Blake Carrington. People like he Are hard to find she Sim Perez to what dismay of her English professors a Wellesley i can Only imagine. The most discouraging trend of All is the substitution of of for thank  i first ran into it at my peo ple s drugstore where i stood for a Long time behind a sulky adolescent who had a picture order worthy of life photographers three enlargements two Complete prints of the whole Roll one in Black and White and one in color. The clerk was a patient and fatherly Man who took it All Down with unbelievable kindness and finally said twill be ready on  of said the lout and not another word. His habit has impeded a lot of people and others will probably Access it in the out  death is the Mother of virtue by George will Chevy Chase Village my. Fred is dead and philosophic thoughts fill All minds at the will Home. One mind is especially so Max. On the eve of her fifth birthday Victoria special Friend and confidante of Fred the goldfish has seen death and has decided after mature deliberation that life is still Good. The time will come when she will see that there is much to be said for mortality. Fred was named by Victoria for Fred Lynn the Balti More orioles Center fielder. Victoria certainly has got her father s number Fred lived into the sear and yellow Leaf and died of the most natural cause old age. Neither cholesterol nor automobiles nor handguns played a part. Irrational eating and drinking negligence about exer Cise and similar foolish Behaviours kill Only creatures who can think and who therefore stand at the Pinnacle of creation. Victoria having glimpsed for the first time the Skull beneath the skin in this Case the Scales of life needed a few words from Leon Kass a University of chicag philosopher biologist and medical doctor. Kass has just published a collection of essays to which i shall refer again in december when 1 award it the citation As the year s Best Book. It is toward a More Valura science biology and human affairs free press. The essay Victoria needed in her sorrow is mortality and morality the Virtues of  the Case Kass makes for mortality does not make a virtue of necessity. Rather it says that the necessity of death is the Mother of virtue. Far from bringing happiness the obsessive Pursuit of longevity distracts us from the soul s natural quest. Biology teaches what moral philosophy concludes we Are social communal creatures with Strong impulses physical and spiritual for reproduction. We Are constituted for concern for the species our lives Point beyond the nudes toward perpetuation. Children arc our participation in the enduring. A craving for physical immortality is childish in the sense of being narcissistic and incompatible with a mature Devotion to posterity. It also is hostile to  arc inc bearers of our Hopes and if they Are to Flower Kass notes we must Wither and give  those who come after who take our place arc life s answer to mortality and their presence in one s House is a constant reminder that one no longer belongs to the Frontier  that is Why to Nave children is to come As close As is possible to reconciliation with i Schuman condition. C Washington poit Pfohl Heb Kuk Ivy iffy we House off 89. 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