Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...orbiting Gemini 4 at the end of a 24-ft. tether, strolled in space for a spell, then matter-of-factly informed Pilot James Alton McDivitt: "It's fun. I'm not coming in." At one point, McDivitt protested: "Hey, you smeared my window you dirty dog." Replied the floating White: "Yep." He finally returned to the capsule after a 20-minute stroll- during which he maneuvered far more freely than Soviet Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov had in a ten-minute space walk three months before. Said he: "I felt red, white and blue all over...
...Michael Dunn as a dwarf actor, Michael O'Sullivan as a one-legged albino hypnotherapist, and Julie Harris as a spinster with a girl-hating rooster stagger through scenes that suffer from fallen archness; and the names of almost everyone-I. H. Chanticleer, Miss Thing, Barbara Darling, a dog named Dog-only force the farce...
...Maoist postermakers have developed a shorthand of invective in the war of words. One favorite reference is to a "dog in the water," meaning an enemy who has been brought down but should be finished off to avoid all risks of a future comeback. "Black gangsters" are anti-Mao intellectuals, whose output is likely to be "poisonous weeds." Enemies of Mao who do not quite qualify as intellectuals are labeled "ghosts and monsters" who follow the "black line." The difficulty of distinguishing friendly from unfriendly posters, especially when nearly all invoke the blessing of Mao for their point of view...
These conspicuous absences prove the contrary of Marcus' suggestion that good writing is somehow a function of national power and prosperity and a product of the consensus that goes with them. The U.S. is represented not by Virgilian celebrators of the Great Society but by outsiders dog-paddling against the mainstream of American life. If American society is a success, no one would know it from this anthology. Unless it is Louis Auchincloss (unrepresented here), the white Anglo-Saxon Protestant has no laureate and, unless it is John O'Hara (also unrepresented), no candid friend. The voice...
...satire against a Dotheboys Hall; the boys are as rotten as the masters. Ferdinand's only friend is a cretin named Yongkind who alone is incapable of malice or treachery. But he is made otherwise disgusting: gibbering, fouling his clothes, drinking ink, slavering over his food like a dog; his answer to everything is "Don't worry," or "Right as rain...