Word: fink
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Felix (George Segal) opens the door, and it seems as if hell's fire has swept through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel. It is the buxom neighbor he has reported to the building superintendent for prostitution. "Hello, pansy!" shrieks Doris (Barbra Streisand). "Hello, fink! Fink pansy! You rat! You fruitcake! Rat fink fruitcake! Creeps as yourself don't have dogs named Wolf. What creeps like you have are little faggy hairy bitty things with names like Pooky and Doodoo...
...terms and despite the present vagueness of each, in current usage they do signify two quite different positions. Liberals think they have saved this and other societies from radicals, a claim that is neither wholly provable nor wholly refutable. The typical radical regards the liberal as a fink-a delicate and obsolete epithet that has been replaced in the radical vocabulary by a popular twelve-letter word. Today's liberal thinks today's society is worth mending and uses constitutional means to that end. Today's radical thinks today's society should be junked and cares...
Without question, the most contemptible show of the season so far is Nancy (NBC), a sappy comedy about the President's daughter (Renne Jarrett) and her fiance, a clod-kicking Iowa veterinarian (John Fink). Producer Sidney Sheldon denies lifting the idea from CBS's Governor and J.J. He got the idea, he says, during the Johnson Administration (which, in possibly its wisest decision, was unofficially unreceptive). The Nixon girls saw the pilot and found it "cute." Nancy's most embarrassing character, actually, is a wisecracking White House woman aide (Celeste Holm) with some of the most pitiable...
...Dale B. Fink '71 an SDS spokesman denied that the door was broken under those cireumstances. He said that the Radical Arts Troupe was performing on the staircase at the time, and that as the Troupe sang one song, "the door was being used as a drum...
...Here the reaction after one day of picketing is that picketing is a real drag." Fink said...