Word: bumbledom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From this position of vantage, it has been his humor to attack established institutions and the entrenched powers of political and musical bumbledom with devastating gusto. Hailing the advent of broadcasting as "the foremost misfortune that has ever overtaken this planet," he has since accused the British Broadcasting Corp. again & again of "unprecedented acts of vandalism" and of "ineffable impudence" for its "butchering of whole works" and "massacring of masterpieces." He has shushed audiences for covert whisperings, or told them outright to shut up. Over an outraged shoulder, he has hissed at them as "savages" for untimely applause...
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