Good Words
Posted on | August 30, 2006 | No Comments
One of my favorite words is plethora, which I attribute to two specific usages.
In that old show Head of the Class, one of the students is walking down into the journalism room and says, “May I have a word?” to which Charlie Moore (Howard Hessman) replies, “I’m not using plethora at the moment”.
Three Amigos brought us an exchange that used the word plethora a plethora of times.
I just had never realized the educational possiblities of the latter exchange – until now.
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You compare the nation to a parched piece of land and the tax to a life-giving rain. So be it. But you should also ask yourself where this rain comes from, and whether it is not precisely the tax that draws the moisture from the soil and dries it up. You should ask yourself further whether the soil receives more of this precious water from the rain than it loses by the evaporation?
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