Word: badness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...climax is bad...
...Record. Such a candid confession goes far toward disarming criticism. Indeed, we half believe that the natural tendencies of this unfortunate ten incited them to their disreputable courses, almost as much as the effect of four years at New Haven. We hope that the paragraph will not have so bad an influence upon the size of '77 at Yale, as we apprehend...
Next came that Western growth of poetry, of which Bret Harte wrote a great deal that is good, and others a great deal that is not good. But, be it good or bad in its execution, the influence of poetry which celebrates one noble act as a full atonement for a thousand crimes, and teaches, if it teaches anything, that virtue shines brightest in a setting of vice, can be nothing but injurious. We need not regret that the heroic-ruffian has lost his place in the popular heart...
...make him perfect, he must be proved to be the perpetrator of crimes, - and that was done; he had been the leader of a band of robbers, everybody asked him to dinner; he had been accused of murder, his reputation was established. His poetry, which was by no means bad, found its way across the water, where he was received by John Bull as a new phenomenon of American life. Meanwhile, the critics were as kind as they could have been if bribed; they occupied themselves more harmlessly than ever before or since, - they sorted his words, and with most...
...practice of roughing (I must accept the word in its new sense), and pointing out the great advantages to be derived therefrom. It seems to me that this ungentlemanly custom has obtained far too great a foothold in college. In some circles a man's actions, good or bad, his words, and even his dress, are the objects of sharp ridicule and thoughtless jest, which often scarce conceal the bad feeling beneath. A number of men move in a fixed groove, and any one who chooses to pursue his course without that groove becomes the object of unmerciful badgering from...