Word: forbiddingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Concerning your shameful Scrutiny article of January 15: I wouldn't object to (nor, God forbid, would I read) Georgette Heyer novels (if novel is the word I want) or to their prune-brained simpering advocates if dime-store penny-dreadfuls like The Grand Sophy were not crowding the few remaining REAL books right off the shelves. The basic equation: buy a Gothic and starve a poet; no there is not room for both. The blood is on your hands, Gay Seidman. Harris Collingwood...
Smokers' resistance might be a force to reckon with if Congress were ever to pass into law a prohibition, like a bill be fore a House committee, sponsored by Massachusetts' Robert F. Drinan, that would forbid smoking in most waiting and boarding areas, and restrict it in military bases and federal buildings. As the Spokane Chronicle's John J. Lemon said of a similar ordi nance that had been proposed in Washington State, "The next victims of such rule making may be whistlers, gum chewers, bone crackers, dandruff scratchers, lint pickers and popcorn...
...months of hearings, Estey turned up damaging evidence. Menard's $100,000 payment, for example, was explained as "seed money" for investment in a national chain of travel agencies. It had been disguised because both Air Canada's charter and international airline rules forbid the airline to invest in travel agencies; that could give it preferential treatment in ticketing passengers. Menard also was found to have given special "expense accounts" to Lebanese officials in an unsuccessful attempt to obtain landing rights for Air Canada in Beirut...
...violations of loan-program rules, begun testing in California a computerized system of monitoring the status of loans, added 70 new field investigators, and established a staff of eleven people to keep a close eye on lenders who have outrageous default records. In addition, several bills before Congress would forbid students to declare bankruptcy shortly after graduation simply because their student loans exceed their assets. The Nunn subcommittee is expected to recommend prohibiting many schools from making Government-guaranteed student loans, and making it a federal crime for a school to falsify data to obtain grants and loans...
...real danger to the enjoyment of these cartoons are among those who would analyze them--the bewailings of the falling-off of the cartoon market after the demise of the Saturday Evening Post, the endless discussions over drawing versus captions, even, God forbid, analytical tracings of artistic styles--they all glut the air and remove these cartoons into some sort of exalted humorless nether-region. The Saturday Evening Post had lousy cartoons (e.g. Hazel); drawings and captions balance each other out just fine; and no, I don't think Charles Addams is indebted to Salvador Dali...