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Word: cocksparrow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sadistic Touch. Singing extroverts make popular parents. Victor loved his "cocksparrow" father once, and laconically concedes, "He charmed." But he delivers his prevailing opinion with icy finality "I hated my father." So deeply, in fact, that he had to hate what his father loved: "big men" (that is, those with money), nice "Things" (Father ended up in the "art needlework" business), and Christian Science...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Look Back in Belligerence | 5/17/1968 | See Source »

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