Word: epithets
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...seem somewhat weary of the title "sick man of Europe." Only the bold program which Mendes-Frances advocates can save them from becoming a second-rate power. If, as expected, next January's returns show that the French people have rejected Mendes-France, their country may truly deserve the epithet...
...Republican Administration for the constructive steps it has taken. We are proud too of the Democratic record for bipartisanship in foreign policy-and we are especially proud that we have resisted the provocation of these Republicans who have smeared that record with the charge of treason, and every lesser epithet as well...
...fashionable art circles today, "illustration" has become a dirty word, and "literary" a sneering epithet. The proper province of art is thought to be merely art. a non-representational play of shapes and colors. Last week Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum staged an exhibition of pictures from its archives that graphically refutes the modern proposition of art for the artist's sake...
...necessity for the New Deal in the setting in which it took place. Both, however, must stand the test of rigorous analysis, and I therefore welcome Professor Robinson's book . . . The political habit of undermining popular respect for the opposition by the use of picturesque epithet is as old as the nation. I can think of many real classics stretching all the way back to Washington's Administration, when John Adams referred to Alexander Hamilton as that "little West Indian bastard." . . . To hold F.D.R. responsible for McCarthy because F.D.R. had striking success in stigmatizing his opponents seems...
...bombast and anti-climax. On the other hand the faith in Schubert's lyricism, which undoubtedly underlay the performance, was not pushed so far as to infuse each phrase, and as a result even ardent Schubert lovers would find it hard to apply to this performance Schumann's epithet of "heavenly length...