Word: alsop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have tipped your hand by using the word "columnist" or its equivalent, 27 times in the first half of the article. The only times you do not use the indefinite article is when you refer to Alsop and Anderson, and this is done in such a cavalier fashion that I can only assume that they are merely stimulus hate-words...
Occasionally, columnists graduate from the simple absurdity of their self-important prose and enter the realm of transcendent absurdity. Such a columnist is Joseph Alsop, prophet of the Imminent American Victory in Vietnam, and a man who has devoted his mature life to the pursuit of chimerical creatures. Nothing in American letters is so tragically commonplace as such a columnist--from whom the oracular grace has so obviously been withdrawn, who has been wrong so many times that no serious person talks or listens to him anymore, but who continues to bowl on in abject public humiliation. The fallen columnist...
...Alsop said that "Peretz money"--and not the thousands of small contributions that McGovern staffers cite--has been the principal source of financing in the Democratic presidential drive...
...sharply worded, nationally syndicated column that appeared the week of August 20, Alsop said that McGovern's campaign coffers were filled to the point of bulging with "Peretz money"--a term he coined for funds coming from rich, leftleaning McGovern supporters who, according to Alsop, "had nothing to do with normal Democratic money...
Peretz called the column "one of the silliest things I've ever seen." Peretz said the article had nothing substantial to say, and was simply a reiteration of Alsop's claim that the Democratic Party is about to be taken over by left-wing irregulars...