Word: epithets
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...life-shouting students, muscular workers, flag-waving women raising fists on the barricades and braving death. But the oppressors they defied were their Communist masters. As the final irony of this amazing situation, the only word the Communists could think of to apply to these genuine revolutionaries was the epithet "counter-revolutionaries...
Please tell Luis Patricio Sullivan of Mexico City [Aug. 27] that the lace-curtain shanty Irish is not an insulting epithet but a whimsey originating among the Irish, repeated among themselves and to non-Irish friends, quoted by the latter-always with quote marks implied by the intonation. Several years ago an Irish friend told me a more recent ver sion, which classified Irish-Americans into "the clean lace-curtain Irish, and the dirty Venetian-blind Irish...
...them an angry dressing down, called them gutless, and somebody leaked the word to sportswriters. Later, to a man, the Brooklyns denied that good old Walt had called them any such thing. That did not put the touchy word on ice. When a Cincinnati fan subtly applied the same epithet to the Dodgers' Centerfielder Duke Snider ("Whatsamatter Duke, you gutless?"), the Duke answered with a sharp, crisp left. Encouraged by a Cincinnati judge, the two battlers shook hands and made up. "But I still haven't got my two teeth back," complained...
...film is most successful when transforms Homeric epithet into moving picture. The frontal assault on Troy is a grand sight- yet not so grand that the spectator wonders if he has not arrived for the Dardanelles campaign 3,000 years late. The chariot chases are breakneck things. Best of all, though, is the passage in which the colossal horse comes gliding into Troy on a churning revel, like the thought of death on the full flood of life...
...staged in 1874 in the vacated Paris studios of Photographer Nadar. One look at the shocking works by such unknowns as Monet, Renoir, Sisley, Pissarro, Degas and Cézanne, and the critics doubled up with laughter. In Claude Monet's Impression, Sunrise, the critics found an epithet to pin on the upstarts: "impressionists...