Word: bagful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...voice in which masculine force was suffused with feminine tenderness, and boulevardiering decadence with a wonderful country freshness. In her 50s she extended her mastery. Her ideas, her images became ever more exact and effective. "The dog lay down with a great rumble and thump that sounded like a bag of potatoes being emptied"-"At the windows hung some nasty little curtains fit for wrapping abortions...
...bag of literary tricks (puns, worldplays, etc.): full...
Among the most vociferous critics are the poor and the leaders of the poor. Civil Rights Leader Bayard Rustin has condemned the campaign as "a bag of tricks." Professional Organizer Saul Alinsky has blistered it as "a prize piece of political pornography." There have been countless charges of nepotism, malfeasance and administrative fiddledeedee, of demeaning interagency squabbles in the capital and squalid scandals in the boondocks...
...Bag. A more radical proposal is the "negative income tax" theory of University of Chicago Economist Milton Friedman, a former Goldwater braintruster. He proposes that the Federal Government set a $3,000 yearly income as the minimum for a family of four, and pay a man 50% of the difference if he falls below that figure; to give the man 100%, says Friedman, would deaden his initiative...
Revolutionary Refrain. Offstage, Pierre Antoine Muraccioli, 21, is not at all in the same alienated, humorless bag with his U.S. precursors. His constant refrain is "Je m'en fous" (I don't give a damn) but actually he does; he spends his days conscientiously studying engineering. "I don't figure on revolutionizing the world," he says. Obviously he is enjoying it too much to change it. After graduation, he figures on packing his guitar and Puccis for a fall concert tour of the States...