Word: epithets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...superior view of New York-or even of Chicago, St. Louis or San Francisco-Peoria was so long the butt of jokes because it seemed to embody that gibing epithet-provincial. The word was both an accusation and an insult, for everyone with a dictionary knew that it means "narrow, limited, insular, unsophisticated" and denotes "exclusive or overwhelming devotion to one's province." The description hardly fits modern Peoria-nor does it apply to the vast areas of the U.S. that once fell under its indictment. The cities and towns of America still maintain the pride of place that...
...words of ghetto-poet Johnnie Scott: "A man called Fear has inherited a half-acre, and is angry." Eldridge Cleaver, in a letter written from Folsom Prison shortly after the outbreak, sums it up: "Watts was a place of shame. We used to use Watts as an epithet in much the same way as city boys used "country" as a term of derision...But now, blacks are seen in Folsom saying "I'm from Watts, Baby! ...I lived there for a time, and I'm proud of it, the tired lamentations or Whitney Young, Roy Wilkins, and The Preacher notwithstanding...
...epithet not to be taken too seriously. Avis is now a wholly owned subsidiary of International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. (TIME, Jan. 22, 1965), which gives it more monetary backing than Hertz has ever...
...remembers. "Depression is not the word." For six days she let herself be looked after, but on Feb. 10 she went back to her flat to spend the night. The next morning, in an Auschwitz all her own, she executed what one critic calls her "last unwritten poem." The epithet is appropriate. In the last week of her life she laid bare the heart of her art in a clouting couplet...
...called The Studio. Only five years later, he was dead of tuberculosis. In the interim, he had, as he said, "embellished" or "embroidered" dozens of books, from Malory's Morte a"Arthur to Wilde's Salome, with drawings that earned him Art Critic Roger Fry's epithet, "the Fra Angelico of Satanism...