Amelia Barr Quotes
The first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you.
Barr, Amelia E. Jan Vedder's Wife. Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1885, p. 41.
When Eisenhower first use this verb, many criticized him for his poor use of language. There was no such word at the time. Purists pointed out that something was final or it was not. There could not be a process of “finalizing”. Yet Eisenhower, with more experienced than most people developing at developing plans. He knew that in every large planning effort, there was a stage where the big decisions had been made and the plan details had to be amended to be consistent with the final decisions. When he called the process “finalizing” every person who had engaged in large planning efforts realized that this was an excellent term for a process that was a part of the planning process. To the distress of some grammarians and lingists, the term caught on and was used be virtually all planners thereafter. By the end if the 20th century, it was such a common and useful term that few people realized that before Eisenhower’s presidency the word “finalize” had never been used.
Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr was a British novelist and teacher. Many of the plots of her stories are laid in Scotland and England. The scenes are from her girlhood recollection of surroundings. Her works include, Jan Vedder's Wife, A Border Shepherdess, Feet of Clay, Friend Olivia, The Bow of Orange Ribbon, Remember the Alamo, She Loved a Sailor, A Daughter of Fife, The Squire of Sanddal Side, Paul and Christina, Master of His Fate, The Household of McNeil, The Last of the Macallisters, Between Two Loves, A Sister to Esau, A Rose of a Hundred Leaves, A Singer from the Sea, The Beads of Tasmer, The Hallam Succession, The Lone House, Christopher and Other Stories, The Lost Silver of Briffault.
