European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 16, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes monday november 16,1987 today s crossword a punctual end of conversation  so Vii sum Mitry too Clever by  editor Ali Collic new s link times irritated no the Way Mikhail s. Gorbachev Iriceil 10 us the Rongan desire for a Summit meeting in Washington As a lever for preconditions. Why pre conditions a term always used pejoratively Why no just the Neutral condition i cannot address thais Hejcl today As i had not preplanned to a year before prances x. Clines of the same news paper known 10 his colleagues As one of the classiest in this in journalism lined Richard Darrian then a High Reagan administration official As one who is a very smart Man and does not hesitate to show it a Senate Leader Acme Mcd to dealing with him even coined the irm Darmand que to describe someone Loo Clever by half at  in criticizing mrs. Thatcher s use of he word if wrote a Reader from Nottinghamshire to he financial times in 19s3, John h unt is Loo Clever by half Orfu her i-.l-, ignorant of North country Kiang. At school in the East midlands the future prime minister would have regularly heard and no doubt used the word As an abbreviation for  since there is the revival of a russian play by Alex Ander n. Ostrovsky tilled in English too Clever by hair Al London s old Vic theater this year the time has come to examine the origins of and the recent Proli feral Ion of Iii fractional excess of adroitness. The prepositional phrase by a must not be con fused with its plural brother by halves which Means imperfectly partially As Edmund Burke warned in 1790, a King is not to be deposed by  thai s whal happens when usurpers get nil in singular by half Means much More consider ably by far a Greal  k can be found before 1400 in Morte arthure. Or the death of Arthur inthe past five centuries it has been used in the description of a woman fairer by one Halfe than Shee was before and in a comment in Richard Brinsley Sheri Dan s 1777 play the school for scandal that could be applied today to one of our Media scandal hounds pshaw he is too moral by  too  is coined in George 1, Whyte Melville s i85s Book the interpreter and Means Loo smart for one s own  it is a British ism like Early on Good show and have a go that has crossed the Atlantic but still retains its British flavor. Clever since we re Al it. Is a word with two  from a scandinavian Root the adjective Stiver appeared in Middle English As a reference to quickness Wilh claws. In one sense inc word has drawn on physical quickness and by Mia phonic Extension has come to mean mentally nimble adroit,skillful." Clever boy in another sense inc nimble Ness lakes on a Darker meaning As Sharp canny cunning Tricky  Clever poll subliminal scare in inc debate among in Republican candidates for president on William f. Butley or s firing line a spirited Exchange look place Between vice president George Bush and Farmer Secretary of slate Alexander m. Haig or. In discussing the incr mediate Range nuclear forces treaty. Bush said that Haig had previously supported such a treaty. Male contradicted him and claimed to have vigorously opposed it. When Bush in turn objected Haig shot Back and i never heard a wimp out of you curious Choice of a word. In context inc word obviously intended was whimper in noun form meaning Peep Small cry whine or. In its Slang sense mild  however Haig who obviously crossed swords with Bush when both were on the National Security Council did not choose Loray i did t hear a Peep out of  he used wimp no such Slang noun is current in the sense of Peep although a 1925 usage has been found that shortens the Echois whimper to Whimp. Tie Jei Balion wimp rooted in whimper Nara timid flaccid  and fighting the wimp Factor " was the cruel headline of Newsweek s cover Story on inc vice president. The application of the clipped form of whimper to Bush by Haig was Brilliant rhetorical subliminal stroke or a mean spirited hot depending As year  of View. Was it a mistake or was in on purpose candidate Haig when serving in the Reagan Cabinet was capable of using such adjectives Nuan Caj meaning minced finery shaded he would not be incapable of bearing wimp. The vice president has been caveat led.  Norton the California computer software Genius and utilities infielder has applied for lexicographic irregular status. He qualifies because he sent in a clip from the new York times with a quotation that ended with the period within quotation Marks. 1 have Long grappled with this Issue. What do you do with the period at the end of a sentence that includes quoted sentence example he looked Al the keyboard and said i wish 1 knew How to open � window the period really belongs to the sentence and nolo the quoted text notes Norton but the usage i was taught puts the period inside the quotes which hate. Judging from the economist British usage would put that period outside the quotes t lot More sensibly. What do you say on the issuer Allan m. Siegal a stylish new York times editor asked for his opinion writes British usage uniformly places the adjoining punctuation wherever logic dict Aln in the example you cited the period would go outside the quotes. American usage sanctioned by All he major sly books places and commas and periods inside the quotes and All colons and semicolons outside in Ameri can usage Only the placement of exclamation Point an question Marks is governed by logic. Note How i put the period ending his sentence not at the end of Lus sentence but at inc end of mine logically Why do we do in this silly Way i can Only assume says Siegal that somewhere along the Way american printers decided that periods and commas looked Odd when separated from the adjoining words shh a i put the period outside the quotes just to show it can be done maybe nobody will notice i say let logic and reason be our guide. American must not let our punctuation be paralysed by the dead hand of some confused Yankee Printer. The disposition of the concluding punctuation Mark should be determined by what makes sense. C mow you to relm. Word flout to . Fsst9�e Salt i Susie. 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