Word: epithet
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...appeals justices ruled that Essex County Judge Leon W. Kapp gave a "devastatingly improper and fatally unfair" charge to the jury. Kapp had also sentenced Jones to 30 days in prison for contempt after the playwright reacted to a ruling from the bench with what the judge termed "an epithet descriptive of excrement." The superior court, maintaining that Jones had not been given an opportunity to be heard, also ordered a new trial on the contempt charge...
...reducing the individual once again, as the American language does in its epithet "a $X-a-year man," to his income-generating abilities, TIME has put down the contributions of the Platos, Aristotles, Kants, Pascals, Salks of this world in favor of the measurable but more ques- tionable contributions of this world's Onas-sises and Gettys. Money does not mirror reality; it provides a market value. To use it as any indication of intrinsic worth is as fallacious as the notion that the artistic value of an entertainment is reflected in its box-office returns...
...yellow paints are splashed inside the glass showcases; a lettered wheel whirls out breezy explanations in art nouveau type. Topping off the extravaganza is a large wall map, lit up by flickering red neon tubing. It is the kind of show that conservative diggers dismiss with a scornful epithet: "Pop Archaeology...
...most people. "Nothing is revealed," says a little boy (Dylan) at the end. He is saying Frankie is revealed to be a nothing. And if Dylan mumbled the same inanities that I did in my childhood, then "Judas Priest" was one of the accepted nice ways to scream the epithet, "Jesus Christ...
...protest began back in January when a B.U. press release announced the $500,000 gift by "philanthropist" Maurice Gordon. SDS and B.U. would have preferred the epithet "slumlord" for the wealthy Boston real estate man. The News printed a story documenting Gordon's conviction for violation of the building code and pointing to his apartment holdings in Roxbury. SDS called on the University to refuse Gordon's "blood money...