University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, June 22.1976
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Life of words isn't totally 'gay'
By RON HARTUNG 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 speak it meaningless course—but that judgment is complicated complex combination of emotions, connotations and associations. In short, words are expressed in a way.
The chief distinction is that, words, unlike ourselves, frequently have little control over the other words with which they are seen.
NATURALLY, THERE are always words that travel simultaneously in two circles—words that elicit nods or snickers, depend on the listener. Wien leads this mottle crew.
But 'sometimes a thoughtless minority adapts a perfectly hardworn word to its own limited ends, rendering that word useless to you. Can there be a better example than Gay?'
Remember what a wonderfully light-hearted word Gay used to be? It used to skip hand-in-hand with such pleasant words as lovely, Lively, Ab, 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, but the gullies chanced some coquettish little preposition, when denly! from behind a closet door an arm reached out and plucked poor little Gay in his head. The squirrels. Gay was kidaped by homosexuals.
SUNSHINE, FLOWERS and bubbling laurels are no longer the province of Gay.
lest Gay next appear as (shudder) a verb (I
gay, you gay, he gays)
Sad as the story of Gay is, it is but one of many. Really is another example. It once told me that she was a song to Aong with such brethren as "Yeshh," "What?," "You kidnille?" and "HUH?" it used to be delivered with a chipper innocence that Dale Evans might have found
THE CHIHPER Really has been largely replaced, however, with some people who are really ChiHPER Really.
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other words that have been applied, justifiably or not, to his new masters, seen in the company of such scruffy types as authority, Unnatural—a godless group to be sure.
Lord, grant that this humiliation cease.
of the heavy artillery, a word used to punctuate some pitty utterances with a show of force.
Today Really is a staple in pseudo-political dialogue. (Speaker A: "The military-industrial complex is bleeding away," and then a corn flake." Soeker B: "Really.")
And the insult doesn't stop there. The pathetic, once-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 debating? Gaws were exposed to excels at the sound of Gays used as a title.
Sometimes Really replaces "For sure" or that favorite of millions, "Dig it," in more casual colloquy. (Speaker A: "His parties on campus." Speaker B: "Really").
The rationale behind Really's use seems
It's true, you can't go home again
By GREG BASHA
Campus Editor
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 sandy, with a single motorbelt challenged the swerving of safety light tint and white on the water.
The Mississippi was the midway mark of my journey back to Kansas for summer school. The train stopped for water and fuel and I walked up to a small stream flowed in a steady rhythm that seemed to free my mind, letting me drift back to where I had been 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 he home meant to me was uncertain.
I found Kansan held no less distorted pictures of my home. To them, Chicago was heads busted on a television screen in '68, murderers and Mayer Daley's iowls.
FOUR YEARS ago I saw Kansas only as an abyss, a vision pulled from the walls of the city where the murders of "In Cold Blood" had been committed, a world of tortures and desolate. Hat fields. City friends snickered, "Goin' to Oz, huh?" when they heard I was killed.
But the town has grown up and is getting tough in its maturity. It's been hernied 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
It took me years to adjust to the pace and people of Kansas. Now, returning to Chicago, I saw it new. I spent a week in my home both and the two days after moving to Chicago. I call home, is a man-made haven, unlike the virgin plants 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-defined streets and lawns sleeted with elm trees.
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hurricane swoosh of jets en route to O'Hare airport.
"ELMHURST IS starting to smell like Cicero," my mother often says, referring to the tough industrial bump once ruled by Al Capone. And now Elmhurst is becoming a Cicero. To collect the town's loss of income, the company employs symbols of its decline from planned牢寂.
the town the town was cursed from the day it pore down call Sandburg's house. A chair now stands where the poet's white two-story once did. And follow York Road, Sandburg's house, where the poet lived. I like a few find a few discarded sapphire bottles and crushed beer cans adorning the gutters.
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.
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" is the word used by some 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 family, and they went to weeks after the killing. But any stranglers from a group would quickly catch up with the rest of the pack for the walk past 311 Cottage Hill. The blood had long been on the sidewalk, but that city street elms the elms is still somehow tainted.
focused 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.
"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 me. "The sky was always too cloudy or gray."
She nodded and stuck her head 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
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 lesscussing The Weather, in all its musicality. A bouncy little "Gosh yes, you right!" just doesn't have the same effect.
Gene
Doane Agency 824 Mass.
A LIST of words similarly maligned could go on and on. Really, Most of them we accept with resignation and a trembling lower lip. We steel ourselves to the realization that our vocabulary has been decreased by one once again.
But sometimes the loss of a special word cuts us to the quick, shakes us to our very being. Such a word is Shoehorn, and you can't be able to use it again. That just isn't fair.
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