[lit-ideas] Togetherness

From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 16:44:49 EDT
 
In a message dated 9/23/2004 1:57:57 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
She  elaborated:
Its just an odd way of saying it.  "togetherness".   I
mean, I have heard of toughness, together, the loch
ness monster, but  I have not heard anybody use the
form "togetherness"
Was denkst  du?

----
 
From a biography of Charles, Prince of Wales:
 
"Early November saw the royal press corps off with the Waleses to South  
Korea."

"The princess had tried to pull out of the trip, but Charles had  insisted 
that she could not let down their hosts."
 
"Clumsily billed by his press office as 'the Togetherness Tour', the visit  
saw the final death throes of their marriage finally enacted before a world 
that  watched slack-jawed." (Anthony Holden, _Charles_, p. 270).
 
Back to the hilarity of Fichte.
 
Cheers,
 
JL
 


I  tried again:

The dictionary says that the word was first used in the  seventeenth century
but...but...it only says this in the addendum, which is  to say that it was
so rare when the Oxford Dictionary was being  compiled--first half of the
twentieth century--that no one knew to put it  in.

Here's an odd example:

"TOGETHERNESS"

Thomas H.  Pynchon, Bomarc Aero-Space Dept., Boeing Airplane Co.,  Seattle

Airlifting the IM-99A missile, like marriage, demands a certain  amount of
"togetherness" between Air Force and contractor. Two birds per  airlift are
onloaded by Boeing people and offloaded by Air Force people; in  between is
an airborne MATS C-124. One loading operation is a mirror-image  of the
other, and similar accidents can happen at both places. Let's look  at a few
of the safety hazards that have to be taken into account when  Bomarcs are
shipped. . . . 


What say you?  Is  "togetherness" relatively new?







------------------------------------------------------------------
To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off,
digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html
[lit-ideas] Togetherness

Other related posts:
