Word: genericism
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...spite of the qualifying adjective, "crazy." I am afraid most readers would make a generic application of the sentence. This would be unjust both to Southern whites and to the millions of self-respecting, law abiding, industrious Negroes who comprise the major portion of our colored population...
There will be many wearers of the Green off to hotels this vacation. Hotels in Montreal, in New York, in Bermuda, in Boston, in Florida, and in Pinehurst. They will find in many of these centers of American culture and criticism an unvoiced assumption that the generic Dartmouth gentleman is a roguish, rakish, hell-bent-for-affection sort of fellow with all the manly virtues and not a few of the more virile peculation's that go to make up the finished citizen of the world. This axiom means a lot to us. There is a pleasure in it that...
...Secretary Kellogg is perfectly right, and we ought to be astonished that we had to wait ten years for an expression of such simple, common sense truth in an official document. But Secretary Kellogg's proposal is only a generic beginning...
James Stephens, Irish romancer, mystic, poet, writes seven new stories and never names a character. So universal are the loves, fears, hates and desires, that the generic term suffices: a man, a woman, he, they. He brings to them much of the intensive insight into human fears and frailty, but less of the happy charm of his Crock of Gold. No happiness at all about "Hunger"-grim story of a woman's fortitude mocked by the inevitability of sheer want. First one child dies of starvation, then another, then the weary husband. And in the end there is nothing...
...Theodore Winthrop made a journey over the Cascades; nine years later, he described his journey in a book, The Canoe and the Saddle. Therein he said: "Mount Regnier, Christians have dubbed it. . . . More melodiously, the Siwashes call it Tacoma?a generic term also applied to all snow peaks." Therewith was engendered a controversy...