Word: epithet
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...DESCRIPTION of a thing, or a person, as a "scoundrel" is a word most often used in anger. It is an epithet hurled, stronger for its restraint and contradictory in its mildness, bolder than any sort of effluent obscenity...
...conception of the film. He realized, for example, that Goldman was not entirely wrong when he perceived at the outset that the film required a leavening note of newspaper humor and camaraderie. The journalistic world is one where power asserts itself in human terms?with a joke or an epithet. It is also one where the troops can express their mildly mutinous feelings in a similarly easy manner. It seems to invite the visual treatment Pakula employed in the newsroom sequences, which is bright, open, healthy. That, in turn, makes even more vivid the sequences in which Pakula exercises...
...Buildings and Grounds, who conducted a four-month investigation into the complaint by Holcombe, said in a letter to Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, dated last Wednesday that "based on all the evidence I have been able to obtain, I cannot conclude that a racial epithet was used as charged by Mr. Holcombe...
...that preoccupations do not undergo a change in character over time. Many parents today have become disenchanted with endless psychological explanation and proscriptions. The phenomenon of permissiveness was, to a degree, real, and not simply a cleverly used political epithet. Dr. Spock has acknowledged that perhaps he ought to have advised more firmness toward children at certain points in their lives. Anna Freud, the founding and guiding spirit of child psychoanalysis, has acknowledged a definite faddish element in the name of her own discipline. Right now the nature of America's future is in question; we are no longer...
Bizarre Drama. The Palestinian diplomatic coup was the climax of a bizarre week-long drama of Arab and Israeli face-saving, double-talking, bluff-calling and epithet-hurling. It began when the Security Council, after frantic three-day consultations, accepted a Syrian demand that renewal of the mandate for the U.N. forces on the Golan Heights be linked to a proposal for a full-scale Security Council debate on the Middle East. Representatives of the P.L.O., who gained permanent observer status in the General Assembly last year but had never been included in Security Council proceedings before, were...