Word: foul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Presenting himself as proof that the universe is foul, Burroughs achieves the somewhat irrelevant honesty of hysteria as he writes of a malevolent world of users and pushers, of a mad conspiracy of spider-eyed manipulators who sell each other "adulterated shark repellent, cut antibiotics, condemned parachutes, stale antivenom, inactive serums and vaccines, leaking lifeboats." All pity is mockery ("Yes I know it all. The finance company is repossessing your wife's artificial kidney. They are evicting your grandmother from her iron lung"). All degradations are cherished: a coroner named Autopsy Ahmed makes a fortune peddling an Egyptian worm...
...final tally came in the period when Dave Nylan covered a wild pass from the Yale center in the end zone. A personal foul on the extra point try set off a brief struggle between players of both teams, after which the Elis tried futilely to score as the game...
...twelve-member Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee turned down six suggestions from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. The committee had no esthetic objection to a stamp that would show a green wreath hanging from a white suburban door, but the block of white would foul up every color-sensitized Mark II Facer-Canceler in the country. Nor did the committee have artistic reservations about a cluster of pajamaed tots ogling their loot spread out under a Christmas tree; the design simply had too much detail for reproduction. Finally a Post Office illustrator offered the winning design-a wreath adorned...
...canvases and give them back. The painter saw through the racket, or always claimed later that he did, but it was easier for him to paint a Renoir than become indignant at a swindler. The only irritants that instantly roused him to anger were those of modernity: traffic noise, foul air, the displacement of craftsmanship by machine production...
...docks at the M.I.T. sailing pavilion went under water during Cambridge's worst rainstorm in seven years. Ten dinghies flipped over as the wind whipped up monstrous waves on the Charles. But despite the foul weather, an outstanding Crimson sailing team swept over seven other Ivy League crews to win the first Ivy League Dinghy Championship...