Word: epithets
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...such things will, when a fine picture, Battleground, unhappily dedicated itself "to the bloody bastards of Bastogne." This recalled the days of World War II, when patriotism excused most anything. Taking its cue from a good movie, the next was dedicated to the principle that a heavily advertised epithet would be a sure attraction, particularly when surrounded by the glamor of topical heroism. So for weeks a bass voice, in thrilling tones, kept shouting "Retreat, Hell" over the radio to herald a really inferior war picture. After Retreat, Hell came the Miracle and The Moon Is Blue. Now Washington Street...
Labyrinthine beyond all final mapping are the convolutions of history. Nothing stays put. It was once settled, apparently, that Ivan the Terrible was terrible, until in 1945 Sergei Eisenstein's movie "proved"' that Ivan's epithet merely meant that he struck terror into the hearts of his father land's dastardly enemies. But if Ivan was only questionably terrible, what of Roger ("The Terrible") Touhy? Here, surely, was solid ground. A nation that could trust neither czarist nor Soviet historians must be able to trust the rewritemen on its own Chicago newspapers...
Citation : "The cause of democracy and the cause of education are alike well served by one who advances evidence against epithet, clarity against confusion, objectivity against obsession, and frank discussion against the dullness of fear...
...have always, unfortunately, been forced to move on about the time we were to tackle irregular verbs. I am looking forward to having time for a real cram course." One of his favorite words in his new Arabic vocabulary is magnoon, which means "insane" and, he says, is the epithet usually applied to native automobilists...
Merrill's second editorship, from 1919 to his death in 1940, has been characterized by Bulletin historians as the period of the "frogs of Guatemala." This epithet does not imply that there ever was a Bulletin article specifically discussing Guatemalan frogs, but only that there might as well have been. For as one scans the issues of this 20-year period, and notices the astonishing frequency of articles reporting esoteric scientific field trips, one gets the distinct impression that "the frogs of Guatemala" would be right at home on the cover of the following issue...