Word: disfavored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Actually, it does not take much special skill to add emotional baggage to a word. Almost any noun can be infused with skepticism and doubt through the use of the word socalled. Thus a friend in disfavor can become a so-called friend, and similarly the nation's leaders can become so-called leaders. Many other words can be handily tilted by shortening, by prefixes and suffixes, by the reduction of formal to familiar forms. The word politician, which may carry enough downbeat connotation for most tastes, can be given additional unsavoriness by truncation: pol. By prefacing liberal...
...Brezhnev's left was another strong candidate, Grishin. Then came Prime Minister Nikolai Tikhonov, 76, Andropov and Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov, 73, who are all contenders. Conspicuously absent was Andrei Kirilenko, 75, the former No. 2 man in the Politburo, who is believed to be ill or in disfavor, and has not been seen for the past three months...
...will reshape his famous performance as Mephistopheles in Faust to suit their totalitarian purposes. They represent, as far as he can see, no more than the next step in his irresistible rise. At first, they even let him intercede on behalf of old friends who have fallen into their disfavor...
...Kafka is world-famous celebrity, and may be he's getting the last laugh for all those years of parental disfavor. Not only is he recognized as an important stylist, but he has even been hailed as the quintessential recorder of modem alienation, prophesying in works such as The Trial and "In the Penal Colony" the rise of totalitarianism. Marxists and theologists alike slug it out in studies with titles like The Kafka Problem. The Kafka Debate and even There Goes Kafka; there has even been talk of setting up an East-West dialogue. But the splendor of his posthumous...
...kind of thing you'll probably be mightily bored with One Horse Show. It is a tninly plotted string of gags and faceoffs tracing Rice's life and times, the progression and corruption of his are through vaudeville elements, his debilitating competition with the evil Dr. Paradisio, and the disfavor that came with more "modern" times and from which he was lifted by a political cartoonist who saw in his comical flag-garbed figure the embodiment of the American spirit. The Mudhead Masks, a Cambridge based troupe, are clearly adopt at the kind of fluid hijinks and simple, obvious laugh...