Word: epithets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...protests inflamed supporters of the war. Groups like the Veterans of Foreign Wars boycotted her films. She received death threats, and Maryland legislators half-seriously debated whether she should be punished with summary execution or merely with the removal of her tongue. To many her very name was an epithet...
...frequently and noisily repudiated. A man who protests as vigorously as Harry Crosby did against convention and propriety is often trying to overcome a nagging inner fear that perhaps he is just as conventional and bound by the past as the inhabitants of "The City of Dreadful Night" (his epithet for Boston). It is this kind of contradiction that gives depth to the character of someone it would otherwise be all to easy to dismiss as a facile, blotting-paper intellectual, a worthless dilettante with an inordinate passion for shop-girls, racehorses and opium (which he called his "black idol...
...super one night, comes in while Marlowe's gone and slips naked as Isis under his bedcovers. His reaction when he comes in says a lot about Marlowe. The woman offers herself up; he politely refuses. She flexes up on all fours and calls him by a filthy epithet. Then he tells the reader...
People have said everything about Harvard's upset win over Boston College last Monday night, and it still isn't enough. Tom Aronson described the game as "classic", and with the many individuals that skated their way into the limelight that night, it was a fitting epithet...
...York Times, tried to insert David Dellinger's comment, "Oh bullshit," (for which Judge Julius Hoffman revoked his bail) into the news story he was writing. The Times national desk balked. They wanted to say Dellinger used "an obscenity." Lukas persisted, and they compromised with "a barnyard epithet." You used to get a feeling that Tom Wolfe at his best gave you stuff like that, but no more. He has become too concerned with masks and manners to go about trapping flies. In fact, he has become a fly himself--the Truman Capote of journalism, caught up in appearances...