Word: epithets
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Mullin resents a lot. He has applied his pet epithet, "no-good sonofabitch," loudly and frequently to such diverse types as Damon Runyon and Franklin Roosevelt, as well as virtually every employer he ever left. His opinion of all politicians is so low that he could not even bring himself to do cartoons of them. Mullin isn't "even sure that Lincoln was a good man," and thinks Andrew Jackson "practiced genocide against the Seminoles at least as bad as Hitler against the Jews." As for the Kennedys, "you couldn't print what I think of them...
...stopped lowering my head at the epithet "cultist" as soon as I realized that the quasi-religious connotation of the term was somewhat justified for those of us who loved movies beyond reason...
Tony Lukas covered the Chicago trial for five months for the New York Times and has now turned out what he calls "A short little book" (107 pages), The Barnyard Epithet and Other Obscenities: Notes on the Chicago Conspiracy Trial. It's a book of anecdotes, incidents, and bits and pieces from the unofficial trial transcript and purports to be nothing more than "a modest contribution to the growing lore on this extraordinary event...
...York Times reporters are the closest thing America has to professional spectators, and one suspects sometimes that the paper's guidelines for news dictates that the more controversial the subject, the more dispassionate, detached, and altogether impeccably facile the coverage must be. The Barnyard Epithet displays traces of this invisible guideline when, for instance, Lukas says Rennie Davis "reminded me of a Kansas 4-H leader but who I knew was a shrewd, resourceful radical...
...present vagueness of each, in current usage they do signify two quite different positions. Liberals think they have saved this and other societies from radicals, a claim that is neither wholly provable nor wholly refutable. The typical radical regards the liberal as a fink-a delicate and obsolete epithet that has been replaced in the radical vocabulary by a popular twelve-letter word. Today's liberal thinks today's society is worth mending and uses constitutional means to that end. Today's radical thinks today's society should be junked and cares little about what means...