Word: endless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...persistence, though a solid virtue, still has its limits. One can always allow politicians their endless pursuits; many are harmless, and it's simple enough to ignore them as they make their way to the electoral junkheap. But for political writers one faces a different matter. Literature, even such a frequently-derided form as popular political fiction, is an art--and any pattern of mindless repetition, of going through the motions for their own sake, is bound to do violence to the art, to turn it into a game where some people lose out. Contemporary political fiction suffers from this...
...about the scandals surrounding a would-be Secretary of State, has never been one to tinker with a good thing. Shrewdly noting that his first book spent two highly profitable years on the New York Times Best Seller List, he spent the next 15 years churning out a seemingly endless series of high-priced sequels, which lacking better titles might just as well have been called Son of Advise and Consent, Return of Advise and Consent and so on ad nauseum. But by the time Abbott and Costello Meet Advise and Consent hit the bookstores two years ago, the public...
...friends. The dialogue, moreover, could only have been overheard coming from inside a dusty sarcophagus. Like the stiff-jointed and forbidding statuary that is ancient Egypt's gift to the world's wealthier art collectors, Drury's characters never bend or smile--they simply stare straight ahead at the endless desert of a plot the author has created for them...
...years of Advise and Consent novels just to kill off three Presidents, two Senators and a Secretary of State--and, of course, all those Chinese who died in the nuclear war--Drury now has 3000 years of Egyptian history to play around with. The possibilities are, unfortunately, almost endless. One can only hope that Drury will learn a different song-and-dance soon, before we all wind up losers...
...Afro-American Medical School graduates as unqualified; Arthur Jensen's appointment to the American Association for the Advancement of Science despite the proven fraudulence of the basis of much of his work on intelligence inheritability; Nathan Glazer's attacks on Affirmative Action as "Affirmative Discrimination." And there are endless additional examples from the national and international scene. Within this context the Lampoon would have us accept their portrayal of Afro-American people as innocent. It seems that "ignorant" would be a better word. The Lampoon has no intention of discontinuing their particular form of chauvinist propaganda unless the Harvard community...