Word: bastardly
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...Composer Deems Taylor? "What a punk!" His Mississippi steamboat-captain grandfather, Charles Henry Ruggles? "A terrible old tyrant-he had to be captain of the ship all the time." His father Nathaniel? 'Drunk all the time." His boyhood hero, Actor Richard Mansfield? "A fine actor but a mean bastard," To this day, he has only one answer when asked about the state of American music: "I think Sun Treader is the greatest composition" And his reply to the obligatory question about his remarkable longevity is always the same: He thrives on dirty stories. "If it hadn't been...
...gusts of Winston smoke from fingertip-held cigarettes. His braggadocio extends even to his genealogy. "One day my father showed up with an armful of documents," he recalls. "He finally had documented proof of my origins. I told myself that it really wasn't so bad being a bastard now that I knew I was descended from one of the world's most celebrated bastards -Leonardo da Vinci...
...literature known as "young-adult novels." Hentoff injects such themes as Viet Nam, racism, generation gap, civil rights, drugs, black rage, white guilt and, for old times' sake, a touch of antiSemitism. Sex is still a nono, although the vocabulary is raunched up with such words as "bastard," "damn it," and "hard...
...want peace, you fucking bastard!" screamed a demonstrator. The students started chanting peace, peace, peace...
...nigger," he yelled out the door. "C'mon in here a minute." The man came. "Now you just stand here nigger. Look at this poor nigger. And all these nigger-lover bastards come down here and they want to hug these niggers and put 'em into white houses. I hate them damn nigger lovers. The only thing worse than a damn nigger is a goddamn bastard nigger-lover. Ought to be shot...