Word: abattoirs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They went around like enthusiastic vegetarians in an abattoir. They had seen the future all right, but it didn't work, except as the past had worked-brutally, mendaciously and callously...
...pronunciamentos in language carefully calculated to endure. As if to make sure that they did, he published most of them in his book City Editor. "Pick adjectives,'' he said, "as you would pick a diamond or a mistress." He defined the newsroom as "part seminary, part abattoir," divided all sportswriters into two schools: "Gee Whiz!" and "Aw Nuts!" Freud was "that Daniel Boone of the canebrakes of the libido," New York's fiery Mayor La Guardia a man who would "bite in the clinches," the reading public a "drowsy, dangerous dinosaur." For working journalists, he boiled...
...Algiers, the Place du Gouvernement, a sun-baked square between the casbah and the harbor, is known as "L'Abattoir" (the slaughterhouse). There, during the bloody struggle for Algerian independence, Moslem terrorists have taken a steady and fearful toll of Europeans. Last week, L'Abattoir butchers claimed two fresh victims in as many days. The deaths underscored an ugly new dimension that has been added, in its expiring moments, to the senseless 7½-year Algerian war. Both victims were newsmen...
...flabby dignity of Shakespeare's besotted bed-athlete. Some like him are still determined to "fight maliciously . . . set my teeth, and send to darkness all that stop me." All "mock the midnight bell" with their varied assertions of tarnished individual worth even in the private hell, the public abattoir...