Word: epithets
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...Everywhere on stone walls and cliffsides appears the four-syllable slogan coined by the government's able chief, Mao Tze-tung: "Move your own hands!" Meaning: "He who does not work shall not eat." A Border Region epithet is the term erh-lu-tze - loafer (literally, "she-donkey"). Communists say they once counted 70,000 loafers, that now there are only a few hundred. These diehards must wear a big white erh-lü-tze badge, are fair game for anyone's hoots and jeers. But this year an official thought up a subtler approach...
...your report (TIME, July 31) of an article I wrote recently for Christianity and Crisis you have me saying that the word lamb in Japanese is an "epithet of contempt and derision . . . perhaps the vilest word in the language." What I actually said is that one of the Japanese words for sheep is such an epithet...
...chair with a penknife. The old man (80) has a somewhat high-pitched voice, corkscrewing oddly out of his mastiff jowls; his stature is small and his build square. But his bulldog face, his straight-backed bearing, his scraggly walrus mustache, and his command of epithet have given him a compelling ferocity...
...Lamb of God, an ancient symbol dear to most Christians, is an offensive notion to the Japanese. To them the lamb is "a dirty, stupid and cringing animal." The word lamb is "an epithet of contempt and derision . . . perhaps the vilest word in the language." Thus, in Christianity and Crisis last week, wrote George S. Noss, Japan-born son of U.S. missionaries, himself a missionary in rural Japan for eleven years, now a teacher of Japanese at Columbia University. His thesis: the reason Christian missionaries to Japan have converted only one-half of 1% of the population is largely that...
Affront to Culture. Although the announcer did not name the butt of his epithet, the Press-Propaganda office promptly hit Belgrano with a 48-hour advertising suspension for "expressions [which] constituted an affront to the nation's culture.and violated the fundamental principles of broadcasting, which today is the greatest vehicle for the diffusion of spiritual, social and moral culture." By the time Colonel Peron could return and lift the suspension, it had cost Belgrano $2,000 worth of advertising time...