Word: bastardize
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...three men left the building and walked back to the car, the waiting crowd erupted in gleeful yells. "Goddam dirty nigger bastard," a teen-age boy shouted, "get out of here and stay...
...Angry Bastard. Unruffled, and showing no scars. Stanhope is prepared to play the game by mouthing conventional praise of the dead Curtal on a BBC memorial program. But he is not prepared for Curtal's illegitimate son, an angry young man who is writing his father's biography and comes to probe the old antagonism. Curtal died, his son tells Stanhope, by laughing himself into a fatal hemorrhage while mimicking Stanhope's mandarin manner. The son's brutal questions lead Stanhope back into a past as dangerous as a minefield, where every step triggers explosive insights...
...occasional witty or brilliant examination, and by the opportunity to discuss the answers with his colleagues. The student can't help regarding his grader as a mysterious nonentity who lurks in the corners during lectures and whose mental processes are utterly incomprehensible except for an occasional rumor: "easy," "a bastard," etc. Most graders lack the time to comment on exams, and some courses even refuse to return them on request...
...Ireland, French, Mitteleuropa, American Twang, American Drawl, American Snob, Canadian, Australian and three kinds of Indian. He fools everybody. Everybody but his friends, that is; they are wise to him. When they call him up and a sweet old German nanny answers, they say, "Come off it, you old bastard." The trouble is that there really is a sweet old German nanny at Sellers' place, and she often gets an earful when she answers: "Voss diss?" Now that Alec Guinness has opted for serious roles, Peter Sellers is the best light actor in the English-speaking cinema...
...there in Crimsonland might ask. He is a television scriptwriter, creator of Chuckles Chipmunk, who quit his job because he found himself talking kideroonie talk. Murray, who will not be forced into the patterns of artificial idiocy, is also the guardian of Nick Burns, a precocious bastard of twelve. And most important, Murray is Jason Robards...