No time to scour the headlines or watch the news? No problem! We’ve rounded up the top words heard, read, debated, and discussed this week. This was a week of bouncing between extremes. The relaxation of Labor Day was contrasted with the renewed tension brought about by North Korea exhibiting defiance in the face of U.S. and international warnings to cease their nuclear program. The continuing stream of devastating images from a hurricane- ravaged Gulf Coast were balanced somewhat by the pictures of resilience also coming from that region. Finally, popular music is all the more dreary for having lost musician Walter Becker this week, and high art lost one of its geniuses, poet John Ashbery, though we should try to not be too lugubrious about this loss. Take a look back at the week that was, vocabulary style.
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