Word: epithets
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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...
Secondly, on the basis of personal knowledge, I consider your epithet [crusty] about the cardinal discourteous and untrue. He is beyond question unbending on matters of principle-for example, Communism. But this has nothing to do with his personal characteristics. In five years of daily association, I have always found him unfailingly courteous and affable with everyone...
...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...
...gesture, and of moving--whether it be simply walking or a waltz or a Latin American rump-shaker. Vocally, she is not yet a hundred per cent effective; but she gets a good deal out of her monumental styganoric narrative. And what she does with the simple epithet "slut" has to be heard to be believed. In all, an impressive performance. Opposite her, Sandor Szabo does admirably in the largely passive role of the Commodore who is a potential successor to dad-in-the-closet...
...glittering words are on view; on page after page the reader's eye is caught by a lambent phrase that subtly calibrates a mood, or a rasping epithet that tears through surface felicity at exactly the point where the author wants granite to show. But before long, although Updike's gifts of language have no trace of falsity, the repeated realization of cleverness begins to be annoying. Unwillingly the reader commences to play put-and-take, acknowledging a score for the author after an especially well-put sentence, taking a point away when a mannerism becomes obvious...