Word: epithet
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Carnovsky's voice is rich and varied, though it lacks the full-organ sonority that some of the passages cry out for. He is equal to the speeches of denunciation, and can make the word "recreant" sound like the vilest epithet in the language...
...take potshots at John Bullish complacency. He had a gift for making a phrase stick. After Arnold so summed him up, Romantic Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley has indelibly remained "an ineffectual angel." His fellow Britons Arnold divided into three groups: "the Barbarians [aristocracy], the Populace and the Philistines," an epithet which for Arnold summed up all the sins of the muscular, muddleheaded, self-satisfied British middle class. He takes a sly dig at the scarcity of inquiring minds in England by noting that Britain is the only country in the world where curiosity, far from being a prized intellectual quality...
Mount Holyoke was founded in 1837 as a Congregational seminary, and until World War II, Mount Holyoke girls were generally looked upon, in the words of one sophomore, as being "religious and kind of finky." Although reality has changed, the image of the "urbanized milkmaid" has persisted, and the epithet "Smith to bed an Holyoke to wed" is still a widespread and popular...
However, Sigmund rightly points out the contradictions in the way the word "socialist" is used by the nationalists. By attaching it to everything from the tepid land reform of Bourguiba in Tunisia to the social revolution of Castro they have turned it into a rather empty epithet...
...Harvard statement is marred by faulty terminology: to label the above substanoes "mind-distorting drugs" is to make a basic mistake which thereafter confuses thinking on the subject. It's an inaccurate epithet; it's not precise language...