Word: abjectly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...book should come on the heels of the summer riots. While Styron does not condone the violence, he views it through a chilling perspective sharpened by his five years with Nat Turner. The Negro extremist, says Styron, "is purifying himself by violence of a sense of his own abject self-ratedness...
...TIME, March 17). Alfried Krupp had to seek aid from the government and accept its condition that Krupp go public by 1969. Thus, though the foundation will still be formed, the dignified exit he wanted for the House of Krupp became abject public surrender...
...with depravity. The theme: girl beats boy. Venus in Furs, his most widely read book, was typical of the rest, though hardly as explicit as some of today's sex fare: Wanda von Dunayev, an imperious Amazon, swaggers through a series of near pornographic episodes, whip in hand, abject lover at her feet. Domestic Treaty. In real life, Sacher-Masoch lived out the imaginings of his books. The model for Wanda was one Fanny Pistor Bogdanoff, a strapping lady with whom he spent six tawdry months in Venice. With his first wife, an aspiring writer named Aurora...
...purple and cream striped pajamas. He looked healthy enough, except for his eyes; as the strobe lights winked, they remained as fixed and flat as blazer buttons. Then, at a word from his captors, the American bowed deeply from the waist like a Manchurian candi date, repeating the abject gesture in all directions about a dozen times. At an other command, he turned on his sandaled heel and marched stiffly from the room...
...that the political arena has substantially changed in both content and style during the last ten years. It may be that organizations such as Young Peoples' Socialist League and Americans for Democratic Action can not bring themselves to recognize such a transformation, for to do so would be an abject confession of the mindlessness of their political perspective. Along with other artifacts, such as the Socialist Labor Party, they properly belong in a political museum...