Word: crudest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contrast, the U.S. right to vote carries with it a right not to vote, to register a negative protest, and most Americans would balk at hav ing it any other way. Even so, they sometimes forget that people the world over have often died fighting for even the crudest kind of franchise. Well aware of that struggle, some democracies impose fines on nonvoters...
Black Power is only a slogan, but it is real to great numbers of people-r and it has many different shades of meaning. In its crudest definition, it is the war cry of embittered firebrands who spurn white America and propagate the nightmare of ghetto violence. To others, Black Power is the impractical dream of a separate black state. But the term can also connote the emergence of Negroes as a cohesive political force, the building of black economic muscle, the recognition of an Afro-American cultural identity. To many black leaders, that is the only realistic meaning...
...rumor mill, Clifford's name was considered among the least likely of a short list headed by ex-Deputy Defense Secretary and Troubleshooter Cyrus Vance and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Nitze. His quietude and age militated against him for a job that-next to the presidency-is the crudest and most demanding job in Government...
...tell: it may also be a "mask of fear" and "the last resort of the non-achiever." This is simply to say what has always been known-that dirty words are not always to be taken literally. As Dr. Hartogs prefers to put it in psychiatric jargon: "Even the crudest obscenities are sometimes circuitous in terms of the patient's true intent." Or the doctor's. Years ago, in his celebrated essay 'Lars Porsena...
...Wigglings." For all the popularity of his works, Sandburg never fared well in academe. Critic Edmund Wilson observed of the Lincoln biography: "There are moments when one is tempted to feel that the crudest thing that has happened to Lincoln since he was shot by Booth was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg." A kind of pseudo-folksy affectation came into some of Sandburg's work. Such criticism never troubled the poet. He was an old-fashioned storyteller, and when an interviewer once mentioned modern poetry, Sandburg snorted: "I say to hell with the new poetry. Sometimes...