Word: bummed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lewis "turning rancid'' in Elmer Gantry, moving on to the discovery of the "terrific" Ernest Hemingway (who does, however, earn a boy's stern moral disapproval as "one of the crowd of degenerate Americans who settled . . . in Paris after the war"). Dreiser's English is "bum," and John Dos Passos rouses a boy's puritanism with the "unalleviatedly filthy" Manhattan Transfer...
...yielding shell contains a hard-boiled yolk of mercenary ambition, she must serve up her garnished egg at the table of male delectation, all a-shake and atremble with soft-boiled, running-over compliance. It means that the stress must insistently be on the symbols of femininity: bust, bum, legs, lips...
...Merion when he won the 1950 Open. In amateur match play, he was almost unbeatable: in one season, he won 29 of the 30 matches he played. "People expected me to win," he says, "and I expected to win. If I didn't, I felt like a bum...
Sweet Bird of Youth. This sleazy affair between a Hollywood beach bum (Paul Newman) and an aging cinemama (Geraldine Page) makes a good movie melodrama out of a tiresome Tennessee Williams play...
Sweet Bird of Youth. This sleazy affair between a Hollywood beach bum (Paul Newman) and an aging cinemama (Geraldine Page) makes a good movie melodrama out of a tiresome Tennessee Williams play...