Word: epithets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
Greenberg dutifully reported the derisive sneer of "carpetbagger" that Nixon directed at President Kennedy's invasion of California last March. When Nixon disavowed his own words, Greenberg pinned them down in a dispassionate story observing that the candidate had used the epithet not only once, but three times...
...TIME does not consider "crusty" an epithet, knows that no photographs of the cardinal were permitted, regrets that it misattributed the quotation. It was the cardinal's secretary who said, while discussing 'he refusal of photographs: "That's why he's Ottaviani...