Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Publisher Dale claimed that he could not understand what all the fuss was about. "It's a bunch of hogwash," he said in a TV interview. "I don't think our reporters are second-class citizens. They can get appointments just like anybody else." And his paper devoted considerable space to explaining that all was shipshape at probate. "It is common knowledge," wrote Enquirer Reporter Caden Blincoe, "that the awarding of appraiserships is a way of returning favors-a form of dispensing political patronage. Patronage is not a dirty word in American politics." Or in the city room...
...Great Bunch. Cerf agrees that there is a malaise in fiction today. "Novelists are still saying things," he declares, "but they are no longer saying them exclusively. To say anything startlingly new in a novel is difficult-it's being said so often by real life, and in the world of reporting and commentary. Most novels today represent the fears rather than the hopes of man. Maybe that's one trouble: the mood is too pessimistic. But it's a gloomy world. We're not in a happy period of our history...
...Heps last spring. Harvard has won four dual meets in a row and the Cadets don't like it a bit. Crimson captain Wayne Anderson said at practice Wednesday, "They'll be up. It irks them--the Harvard image. They don't want to be whipped by a bunch of twinks...
...difficult to attach any clear significance to the myriad of resolutions which the conference adopted. The delegates did not represent a fair cross section of college students, teachers, and administrators. But it would be equally unfair to dismiss the conference as a bunch of leftists suggesting predictable reforms. Many of the students who came were presidents of their college councils, not simply disgruntled SDS types...
Georgy has other chances to moralize. She is, after all, the good-hearted fat girl badgered by a bunch of slick, corrupt elders: a bitchy nymphomanic roommate who deserts her own child and runs off with an anonymous sugar daddy; a ne'er-do-well lover who quits his job, ignores his baby, and calls Georgy "fat face;" and a butler father who pressures her to marry his leering middle-aged employer. Plain, put-upon, hugging her baby-care books to her ample front, Georgy is supposed to be a sympathetic figure; but what the director and the weeping girls...