University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, June 22, 1976
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Life of words isn't totally 'gay'
By RON HARTUNG
NONHUMAN CONTRIBUTING Writer
Like it or not, we are judged not only for ourselves but also by the company we keep. When we socialize with respectable types, we are assumed to be similarly respectable; when we cruise along with the low-life crowd, we are judged accordingly.
As with us, so with our language. We judge words by their meanings, of course. We judge speech by its complexity and complex combination of emotions, connotations and associations. In short, words are always about what is being said.
The chief distinction is that, words, unlike ourselves, frequently have little control over the other words with which they are seen.
NATURALLY, THESE are always words that travel simultaneously in two circles—words that eicit nouns or smickers, depend on the listener. Wiener leads this motive cowt
But sometimes a thoughtless minority adapts a perfectly hardwrist word to its own limited ends, rendering that word useless to them. Can there be a better example than Gay?
Remember what a wonderfully light-hearted word Gay used to be? It used to skip the ladies, like Frisky, Fisky, Hivasson, Blith, Feestive, Lively, Ah, what a group that was,
showered with sunshine and sprinkled with flower petals.
But this Eden was not to last for Gay. One fateful day it lagged behind its merry hour and the Eden had coquettish little preposition, when suddenly! from behind a closet door an arm reached out and plucked poor little Gay into his bedspreads. Gay was kidnapped by homosexuals.
SUNSHINE, FLOWERS and bubbling laurel are no longer the province of Gay.
Sad as the story of Gay is, it is but one of many. Really is another example. It once told that he had a girlfriend Aong with such brethren as "Yeah! What?", "You kidnidd'?" and "HUH!" it used to be delivered with a chipper innocence that Dale Evans might have found
lest Gay next appear as (shudder) a verb (I gav, you guv, he grays).
THE CHIPPER REPEAT has been largely replaced, however, by what some people call the "chippewheel."
to be that it adds a sense of importance to the topic of conversation and, consequently, to the conversants. Thus when one replies "Really" to a statement about the weather, he's no longer discussing the weather; he's discussing The Weather, in all its glory. He's glory. A bounce little "Gosh yes, you right!" just doesn't have the same effect.
other words that have been applied, justifiably or not, to his new masters, seen in the company of such scruffy types as Holly, Unnatural, a godless group to be sure.
Lord, grant that this humiliation cease.
And the insult doesn't stop there. The pathetic, one-proud adjective that used to be sung in lifting tones has even been forced to masquerade as a noun that is shouted in militant defiance. How debasing! How the insults are excels in the sound of Gueses was used as a title.
A LIST of words similar maligned could go on and on. Really. Most of them we accept with resignation and a trembling lower lip. Westeel ourselves to the realization that our vocabulary has been decreased by one once again.
Comment
of the heavy artillery, a word used to punctuate some pitiful terms; a show
Today Really is a staple in pseudopolitical dialogue. (Speaker A: "The military-industrial complex is bleeding the earth with a corn flake." Speaker B: "Really.")
Sometimes Realty replaces "For sure" or that favorite of millions, "Dig it," in more than two places. Ms. Ari: "Hs fraternity has the gayest parties on campus." Speaker B: "Really."
The rationale behind Really's use seems
It's true, you can't go home again
The Mississippi was the midway mark of my journey back to Kansas for summer school. The train stopped for water and fuel before we arrived, but I flowed in a steady rhythm that seemed to free my mind, letting me drift back to Jenna and wonder about where I was headed.
The points of my journey were clear: to the wheat lands of Kansas, back from Chicago and its cloudy sky. What each of us called me home meant to me was uncertain.
I found Kansans hold no less distorted pictures of my home. To them, Chicago was heads busted on a television screen in 188, murderers and Mayor Daley's iwls.
The train ride back from Chicago was quiet until we clucked across the bridge over the Mississippi near Fort Madison, Iowa. The river there was wide, gray and muddy. The motorcar challenged the swirling tides, its safety light tiny and white on the water.
Campus Editor
FOUR YEARS ago I saw Kansas only as an abyss, a vision pulled from the sky where I came to be, where the murders of "In Cold Blood" had been committed, a world of torados and desolate, flat fields. City friends snuckered, when they heard I was to come to college before.
By GREG BASHAW
It took me years to adjust to the peace and people of Kansas. Now, returning to Chicago, I woke a new. I spent a week in my neighborhood. The suburb of Elmhurst, the suburb of Chicago I call home, is a man-made haven, unlike the virgin plains that slope away from Lawrence. It was planned as a placid place to return to after a hectic business day in Chicago, a "decent place to live," with well-maintained lawns and streets lined with elm trees.
But the town has grown up and is getting tough in its maturity. It's been hemmed in on all sides by superhighways that carry cars farther away from the city to newer suburbs with quieter streets, "Nature" in Elmhurst has become a sea of traffic and a
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focused again on the river. The sun had dropped to the edge of the horizon and the Mississippi was fire red with the last light of the day.
On a sidewalk on this street, David Hamby, a 23-year-old self-proclaimed presidential candidate, allegedly stabbed his father to death May 3rd. "Allegedly he went on a rampage and stabbed children on their way back to a nearby grade school from lunch witnessed the killing in terror. When I was home the kids were walking on the sidewalk by the Hamby house." He was killed weeks after the killing. But any stranglers from a group would quickly catch up with the rest of the pack for the walk past 111 Cottage Hill. The blood had long been washed from the sidewalk, but that city behind the elms is still someones tainted.
"ELMHURST IS starting to smell like Cicero," my mother often says, referring to the tough industrial burged once ruled by Al Capone. and now Elmhurst is becoming a symbol of innocence not easy, but there are symbols of its decline from plumed purity.
hurricane swoosh of jets en route to O'Hare airport.
On one of Elmhurst's prettier streets, Cottage Hill, a street shaded from the sun by tall, arching elms, my home town more clearly lost its innocence.
Perhaps the town was cursed from the day it tore down Carl Sandburg's house. A red, white and blue Standard gas station was built on the side of the road once did. And follow York Road, Sandburg's old street, down to North Avenue. You'll find a row of brown brick buildings and crushed beer can sacks that the gutters.
"I don't remember ever seeing the sun set the whole time I lived in Chicago," I said to the girl in the seat next to mine. "The sky was always too cloudy or gray."
She nodded and stuck her back into Reader's Digest. It was all right. There would be plenty of sunsets ahead in Kansas.
THE TRAIN bolted from our stop and I
But sometimes the loss of a special word cuts us to the quick, shakes us to our very being. Such a word is Sheohorn, and we can be able to use it again. That isn't just fair.
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