The minister replied by noting that he was not even charged with being a Communist, and suggested that Mr. Philbrick's language represented "the weasel trick of a coward".
The language represented by inscriptions from the territory of the Veneti between the Po River, the Carnic Alps, and Istria is called Venetic.
Mr. Conrad said his position had been the same throughout this year's budget debate, but his language represented a clear shift in emphasis from the longstanding Democratic position that the Social Security surplus was sacrosanct.
Asked Wednesday evening to explain the apparent inconsistency, the panel's chairwoman, Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard law professor, said only that "this was a four-person panel" and that the report's language represented a consensus.
The Language poets (named after a magazine called Language) represented a new surge of experimental writing, while the New Formalists (with whom Salter was associated) wanted to resist the influence of modernism, re-energizing poetry's relationship not only to traditional form but to narrative.
The accepted view today is that all writing systems represent relatively optimal solutions to a large and unique set of constraints, including the structure of the language represented, the functions that the system serves, and the balance of advantages to the reader as opposed to the writer.
