Word: epithets
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...musical darling, but Capitalism in Manhattan put on its boiled shirts and sped to the splendiferous Metropolitan Opera House premiere of his master work, Lady Macbeth of Mzensk (TIME, Feb.11, 1935). Pravda called Shostakovich's compositions "un-Soviet, unwholesome, cheap, eccentric and tuneless." The devastating Communist epithet "bourgeois" was tagged to them. Rehearsals of his latest ballet Limpid Stream, on which the Corps de Ballet of Moscow's great Bolshoi Theatre have been working diligently for months, were canceled. As Soviet critics leaped to a new point of view which would save their jobs last week, they discovered...
Yesterday it was Dutch Shultz Flagenheimer and his two bodyguards. His life also was a succession of cruel martyrdoms, a continual flight from the criminally libelous ( as proved in the courts many a time) epithet of Gangster and Racketeer and Public Enemy. Only the newspapers were polite enough to pre-attach the modest adjective "alleged...
Searching for an epithet with which to lash Italian husbands and wives who indulge in birth control, Benito Mussolini in his family newsorgan. Il Popolo d'Italia coined the scathing descriptive phrase "mere gymnastic love...
...issue is clear cut. To cleave to hallowed precedent or to suffer Harvard tradition to fall deplorably and dishonorably in the dust. With what nick-name, term, or epithet shall we refer to the cheerful Amazons who sweep our floors and make our beds? Shall we say "goody" or "biddy...
...champion of their cause is Charles Townsend Copeland, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus. "Goody," he states, "is the authentic Harvard epithet, used to describe those who tidy Harvard studies from the time of the founding of the College. Its origin is in the English appellation, 'Good-wife,' and as applied to female domestics it is peculiar to Harvard among universities in this land...