GOP's "Big Tent" (1955, 1957)

[Laurence Horn]

At 11:42 AM -0400 6/28/05, Mark A. Mandel wrote:
>Bill Mullins quotes:
>    >>>>>
>"Humanism is a n expansiv trisyllable, a veritable "big-tent" of a word,
>sheltering many varieties of performance under its spreading canvas."
>  <<<<<
>
>Trisyllable? Hmm. Does the schwa not count because it has no letter, or the
>'m' because its letter is not a vowel, or what?
>
>(Meta-observation: I felt I had to add ", or what" to make it clear that I
>didn't mean to pose a purely binary question.)
>

Especially given the era of the quote, I'd wager it's the latter.  No
"vowel", no syllable.

Larry