Word: epithet
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...coined the term "momism" in Generation of Vipers, his 1942 best-selling harangue against American mores; of heart disease; in Miami. "I didn't expect to become known for the rest of my life as a woman hater," said Wylie, but Vipers, he figured, had made the epithet inevitable. "That's the first thing they'll put in my obituary-a woman hater. I certainly was a damned odd one." In fact, Wylie was an early supporter of women's rights. But his description of Mom as "a puerile, rusting, raging creature" did little to dispel...
...with unrestrained pleasure that Muller-who neither drinks nor smokes but freely uses four-letter words -refers to himself with the radical epithet Pig. Having heard Mayor Daley instruct his police to suppress demonstrations at the 1968 Democratic Convention, Muller even understands why the epithet is slung: "Personally, I didn't go for most of the antics of the Conspiracy Eight defendants, but if you've been around the courts as long as I have, you know what the Bobby Scales and Abbie Hoffmans were ranting about. You'd have to be deaf, dumb and blind...
...hated Locustland. Hated the habit of hype ("You're gonna be the new Garbo"), the cult of cute (they tried to change her name to Gilda Christian) and the geniuses in silver ties. Her pages are blistered with portraits in epithet. Zanuck has his "beaver's teeth pronged into a cigar." Skouras is merely an "oxlike package, voice like a child's rattle." Louella Parsons is kissed off as "The Queen Mother at Toad Hall." Marilyn Monroe, "a child with short legs and a fat bottom," wonders innocently: "Who is Thomas Mann...
...before the book had even been released, Time magazine published an article. "Posthumous Pillory," a preview of The King God Didn't Save, in an "Opinion" section of its August 17th issue. The lead paragraph of the piece concluded, "Now a black writer has added yet another-and unlikely-epithet to those (commie, liar, ad sellout) already fastened to the assassinated leader. . . Williams calls King a failure...
...declare himself a man among men. The African cannot deny that he is African, nor claim for himself this abstract uncolored humanity. He is black. Thus he is held to authenticity. Insulted, enslaved, he redresses himself; he accepts the word 'Negro' which is hurled at him as an epithet, and revindicates himself, in pride, as black in the face of white...