Word: blow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dereliction of Duty. As the trial began last week, Gandar got in the first blow in his opening statement. The Mail, he declared, had gone "well beyond what most newspapers would have considered adequate" in checking its facts. Not to have published the stories, he said, "would have been a dereliction of duty, a suppression of a matter of vital public concern." Fulfilling that duty could now cost Gandar and Pogrund, if they are convicted, a year in prison on each of two counts...
...punches each boxer threw. Then he reduced the field to the 16 top-rated heavyweights, from bare-knuckled John L. Sullivan to fancydancing Muhammad Ali. He fed all the information into a National Cash Register 315 computer. After proper programming, the machine was ready to spew out a blow-by-blow account of a mythical fight...
...prudent to name the many men he can parody. He knows all the drug-age neologisms and uses them with a purposeful heavyhandedness. A "mind blow" that comes off his tongue awkwardly and belligerently, with quotations marks around it, reminds him that he is not, after all, native to the generation which minted the phrase. It also hints to his undergraduate audience, or the part of it which uses the words scarcely more gracefully than he, that neither are they. The play is brilliant, ceaseless, and for those too shy, too polite or too slow to answer back, intimidating. More...
...Administration? The war is making a mockery of social justice and human rights here at home by eating up all the funds which could and should have been provided for the grave internal problems that face this country. In Vietnam the war takes a more direct and more tragic blow at social justice and human rights as the killing and bombing continues. How does a vote for HHH show a concern for "social justice and human rights" when this man has voiced unequivocal support for the policies which divide and cripple us at home and shame us abroad...
...coast of Trinidad on July 4, 1800--an atmosphere of sultry, pulsing mystery should surround the action, beginning when Delano describes the bizarre view through his telescope: "I see a sulphurous have above her cabin,/ the new sun hangs like a silver dollar to her stern;/ low creeping clouds blow on from them...