Word: ghouls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What kind of ideological ghoul disinters the dead and uses them for purposes they did not believe in while they lived...
Halsey Edge was a small scrawny man of fifty-something, with a pinched yellow face and no hair at all. He called himself "a ghoul by profession and inclination"--his only joke, if that is what it was--by which he meant he was an archaeologist, and he was very proud of his collection of battle-axes. He was not so bad once you had resigned yourself to the fact that you were in for occasional cataloguings of his armourystone axes, copper axes, bronze axes, double-bladed axes, faceted axes, polygonal axes, scalloped axes, hammer axes, adze axes, Mesopotamian axes...
...Hadden edited, with a carefully annotated translation of Homer's Iliad by his side; in the back cover he had listed hundreds of its energetic verbs and compound adjectives-forerunners of TIME'S "beetle-browed," "buzzard-bald," etc. He also encouraged backward-running sentences ("A ghastly ghoul prowled around a cemetery not far from Paris. Into family chapels went he, robbery of the dead intent upon"). When Hadden, only 31, died of a streptococcus infection in 1929, the magazine published a Milestones item about him which ended in a typical TIME sentence: "To Briton Hadden success came steadily...
...lines are put onto the video tape. In the afternoon come makeup sessions, the dress rehearsal, and then the actual taping of the show that will be aired the following week. Since editing the tape is expensive, most fluffs are left in. One exception: Joan Bennett referred to her ghoul-ridden home not as Collinwood but as Hollywood...
That slip was edited out-although it is not clear why. After all, Hollywood's not exactly ghoul-free either...