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Word of the Day for Friday, April 1, 2011gravitas \GRAV-uh-tahs\, noun: High seriousness (as in a person's bearing or in the treatment of a subject). At first sight the tall, stooped figure with the hawk-like features and bloodless cheeks, the look of extreme gravitas, seems forbidding and austere, the abbot of an ascetic order, scion of an imperial family who has foresworn the world. And we want to tell our readers about sharp, clever books, utterly lacking in gravitas, that we know will delight them on the beach or the bus. That gravitas and germaphobic hypersensitivity sometimes led to situations bordering on slapstick. Gravitas is from the Latin gravitas, "heaviness, seriousness," from gravis, "heavy, serious." | |||||||||
 Words of the Day? How about words of timeless wisdom?Introducing our Quotes channel! "Life itself is a quotation." - Jorge Luis Borges | |||||||||
  Why is April called "April?" The answer is a mystery — no fooling!Mark Twain once wrote: "This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four." Twain is referring to the first day of April or, as it has come to be known as, April Fool's Day. While the first day of the fourth month of the... | |||||||||
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