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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48917)	8/22/2005 3:33:21 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

Word of the Day for Sunday August 21, 2005 vicissitude \vih-SIS-ih-tood; -tyood\, noun: 1. Regular change or succession from one thing to another; alternation; mutual succession; interchange. 2. Irregular change; revolution; mutation. 3. A change in condition or fortune; an instance of mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another). This man had, after many vicissitudes of fortune, sunk at last into [1]abject and hopeless poverty. --Thomas Macaulay Max had rescued his father's gold watch through every vicissitude, but as it didn't go I took it to a watchmaker. --Edith Anderson, [2]Love in Exile: An American Writer's Memoir of Life in Divided Berlin It has come about that this writer, who at the beginning might have appeared in unique occupation of a marginal and peripheral world, is instead writing from the center of a historical vicissitude, utterly contemporary. --Elizabeth Hardwic, "Meeting [3]V. S. Naipaul"