Word: epithets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Atheist Madalyn Murray boasts that "we do everything properly, through the courts." What she has already done through the courts, however, strikes millions of people as so improper that she has earned the epithet: "the most hated woman in America." Last year the belligerent Baltimorean won a Supreme Court ban on school prayer. Last month she started suit again to kill a new Maryland law permitting compulsory school "meditation." Next month she goes for the brass ring: a suit against the State of Maryland that is clearly aimed at destroying tax exemption for all U.S. church property. Churches are "leeches...
...inherited the sonnets and "got them" for Publisher Thorpe. Rowse points out that "beget" is used twice in Hamlet as meaning simply "to get." The sonnets were written in 1592-94, because they contain innumerable topical references "obvious to an historian." "Mortal moon," for example, was a stock epithet for Queen Elizabeth. Sonnet 107 therefore could only refer to the Queen's safe survival after the attempt of her Spanish physician, Dr. Lopez, to poison...
...development house was once an architectural epithet synonymous with look-alike monotony and unimaginative design. The housing shortage after the war and the flight to the suburbs did nothing to improve the situation; young families with veterans' loans were glad to take whatever the contractors offered -and that wasn't much...
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...