Wordicide. Even poor and foreign-born words are killed. Look esp at 'chancer', think

[Markekohut]

Meacham, new Jefferson biographer, has piece ib NYT saying Congress dining together w the pres,almost all the time enabled ideological hostility to soften and compromise to sometimes happen

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On Nov 26, 2012, at 11:06 PM, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> i suppose i should read the context on that, but...
> it makes me think of
> 
> a) the importance of dinner parties in politics
> b) the importance of parties in Pynchon (the house party v begins with
> and the sudwest party in a key chapter of same; also the house party
> in m&d)
> 
> c) did jefferson mean that he encouraged everybody to meet everybody
> so that the formation of cliques by the mere chance of sitting near
> each other (and then those cliques going on to rule various corners of
> the world...) was less inevitable?
> 
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> More misc. on 'chance'...in today's NYTimes, Jefferzson is quoted about
>> mingling all his political guests at the constant WH dinners, otherwise " we
>> have a government by chance rather than by design"...
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad
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>> On Nov 26, 2012, at 4:49 PM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Of TRP's 'chance'?  Gotta see how their roots connect if they
>> 
>> 
>> m.guardiannews.com/books/2012/nov/26/former-oed-editor-deleted-words
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