Word: clod
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...this age of permissiveness, who else but Jimmy Stewart could do a double take, mumble incredulously, "Do you suppose this is a wh . . ." and make such delicacy believable? Stewart has a rich cinematic history of clod-kicking embarrassment before the ladies; he can still say "ma'am" more effectively than anyone else in the business...
...McHarg is a 48-year-old landscape architect who delights conservationists with eloquent speeches that blast man the polluter as "a blind, witless, lowbrow, anthropocentric clod." With his Scottish burr, fierce beard and piercing eyes, McHarg is a cross between Jeremiah and a kind of male Rachel Carson. He is not only a symbol of rising anger at environmental abuses, but a successful practitioner of the hard art of stopping those abuses. In his new book, Design with Nature, which Lewis Mumford calls "a vision of organic exuberance and human delight," McHarg clearly shows that the main obstacle to saving...
...author manages some artful acts that reveal the writer behind the discontented esthete. Moments of fiction materialize, coolly precise, sharp and fresh as the crinkle of ice that can be skimmed from the edge of a winter puddle. Fries, moreover, can write about love without sounding like a clod or a pornographer...
...Only a remarkable clod could be offended by Avatar," Charles R. Beye, head of the B.U. classics department, said in Middlesex Superior Court yesterday...
Half-Inch Accuracy. Surveyor's virtuoso performance was still to come. Noticing a clod of soil dug out of one of its trenches, the craft closed its claw on the clump, biting off about two cubic inches of soil. Carefully clutching its prize, Surveyor maneuvered it into position and then dropped it on one of its footpads, much like a child dropping a handful of sand on its shoe...