Word: generics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reception encouraged him to co-author The Real Majority. We found ecdysiast, first minted by H.L. Mencken, a delightful way of describing Gypsy Rose Lee, and helped make it a part of the language. The title beatnik, originally bestowed on Bohemian writers in San Francisco, became a generic term in the pages of TIME. McCarthyism and Castroism first came into general use in the magazine, as did Kremlinologist, Sinologist and urbanologist...