Word: bastardly
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...BASTARD," says Stratis Haviaras with barely the hint of a Greek accent, adding. "The bearer of many winds. I carry the whiffs and flavors of different times and different places: I feel them rise within my blood and sometimes they are very...
...writer who was hailed as the most promising voice in American letters. Zuckerman Unbound (1981) found the hero in his 30s, beleaguered by celebrity and controversy. Carnovsky, a Portnoy-like novel, had angered the community and his own family. His father's dying word to his son was "Bastard." Roth's father, a retired insurance executive, is a vigorous supporter of his son's work...
...most of his 40 years, John, a Los Angeles machinist, has thought of himself as "a no-good, useless bastard." That is what his father, who beat him with sticks and belts until he was 13, continually called him. And that, for a time, is what John became. He left home after high school, joined the Navy, but failed to mature. "I couldn't deal with adults. I was a loner and avoided people unless I was picking fights with them." He drank too much, married a divorced woman with a three-year-old daughter, and discovered that "emotionally...
...small circle of scholars who met regularly with John Maynard Keynes to discuss the early drafts of his revolutionary tome, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936). A prolific author (20 books, scores of articles), Robinson attempted to merge Marxian analysis with modern economics and harshly criticized "Bastard Keynesians" who, she believed, distorted the master's theories. Seeing little hope for "cruel" capitalism, she predicted in 1978 a global economic crisis, saying, "I am an optimist by temperament, but a pessimist by intellect...
...biggest bastard of all turns out to be glamour-boy Robert Redford and Goldman should know, having worked with him on five films. Redford caused one of Goldman's projects to be cancelled because, after the phenomenal success of Butch Cassidy, he felt uneasy playing a character who was "kind of weak." During their fourth collaboration. All the President's Men, Redford refused to entrust Goldman with his home phone number. Then, out of jealousy for co-star Dustin Hoffman's character, he demanded that Goldman write in a love interest for him; and, in what Goldman justifiably terms...