European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 25, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the stars and stripes wednesday november 25,1987 columns today s crossword acting out the character Issue by William Safire on saturday night live the comedian Al fran Ken asked Bruce e. Babbitt a democratic presidential candidate governor what about the character Issue Babbitt what about it Frankyn i m referring to your Long history of going into supermarket express lanes with More than 10 Babbitt who told you that the Dukakis Campaign this skit was not exactly a High Slapper but it did have a political Barb the Campaign of gov. Michael s. Dukakis was the source of an attack video showing that sen. Joseph r. Biden or. Had stolen the words indeed the entire family background of the Britis labor Leader which led to the demise of the Biden candidacy on the rocks of the character Issue. We will be hearing a great Deal about this Issue in the coming year. In the Campaign of 1900, William Jennings Bryan called imperialism the burning Issue of the Campaign giving More zip to the customary labels of leading Issue and Paramount Issue. These Are the formal intellectually approved subjects for debate a Cut above the plebeian bread and butter Issue and m contrast to the gut Issue which often deals with race or class resentments not to be mentioned in High toned debate. Cut Issue probably Long bruised about in politics on both sides of the Atlantic May have been first recorded in the economist of London As recently As 1964 for Harold Wilson it was a carefully planned Campaign. The Neo Kenned ism combined with a concentration on gut a generation before the word firt from the old English for Bowel was a part of College Slang As gut course meaning easily that referred to the belly s softness in general Slang Gutsy Means courageous and gut used As an adjective in politics Means visceral appealing to emotion rather than switcher Issue is known to pollsters As a subject of conflict such As abortion or gun control that would cause a voter usually aligned with one part to switch to the opposition on that matter alone. The social Issue coined in 111 1 by Trie Jpseph Logist Bici j. Wal Lenberg and Richard m. Scammon denoted the con Cern with drug use alienation unrest and changing morality that seemed to be replacing the economic or bread and butter problem or shortcoming we Call the Cofia racer Issue is As old As campaigning from the in incas of the romans coriolanus to the acknowledgement by Grover Cleveland of paternity of an illegitimate child mama where s a was the slogan used to Embarrass him but the phrase seems to Nave sprung up in our the 1984 Campaign a columnist writing about sen. Gary Hart wrote that vice president Waller Mon Dale was not however ready for Hart and his unexpected lethal Challenge on the character Issue. Hart whose Campaign is vaguely new and futuristic suggests that Mondale is old at sen. John h. Glennjr. Then raised what he called the character Issue by stressing personal accomplishments rather than Posi Tion papers. But it was left to Walter Mondale with his where s the beef Campaign to imply that Hart Wasa hollow or plastic Man a defined character Issue As a synonym for questions about Hart s age and his decision to shorten his name from Forward with the right spelling by James j. Kilpatrick today s topic is spelling Plain old fashioned unadorned spelling and i plead your close attention. Any person who Hopes to write successfully for publication must first learn to spell. Because dictionaries arc so inexpensive and so indispensable to the writer there s no excuse for the weird Spellings we see so often. Horrid examples the Portland oregonian is one of the great papers of the West but its writers have a real problem with the paper s Book review editor no less told us about James Mich nor s Forward to a Book about the Constitution. Ten Days later a naval analyst spoke of the Forward to Jane s fighting nol to be outdone the new York times reported a spat Between economist Lester Thurow and Simon & schuster. Thurow had written a Forward to a certain scholarly Book three years ago. The Forward was to be used Only in the academic edition. He had received for his Forward a fee of $400. The Little essay at the front of a Book in t a Forward for heaven s Sake. It s a foreword a word at the fore. How can anyone mess up on that for the record a foreword ordinarily is written by some one other than the author a preface is something written by the author often making acknowledgements for assist Ance that is Shorter than an introduction. Some words admittedly have two permissible Spellings. Foreword in t among them but stanch new York times writes of staunching the flow of marijuana. The Greenville . News wants to staunch the Haemorrhage of military cos. The preferred spelling is the dictionaries list Momento As a variant spelling of memento but memento out of the roots that give us memory and remember surely is preferred. Another switcher is Strait jacket which i preferred to yet another is rigmarole though Rig Amaroli is acceptable. A Reader sends an advertisement for a filet this is a Tricker. If we Are talking of the succulent Steak it s a filet mignon the French won t have it any other we re talking generally of Boneless cuts of fish or beef the word is fillet and this was a fillet knife. The list goes on dec incr for decipher mimmick for mimic irrigation for irrigation dignitary for dignitary a Cuttle for rebuttal sub Tilty for subtlety. All of these appeared in newspapers of general circulation. C Universal press last few Pohtos of 10urlift a vffiererm.1, non we son we Cut we re. My Vve Milms believe Din ulms emm do us of it Vuks in last so in neb wave a refit to. a Levot. 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