Word: grossest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...youth cult films of the '60s catered to the grossest fantasies of the times. In Wild in the Streets, a 19-year-old becomes President and puts over-35s in concentration camps. In // ... rebel students gun down parents and teachers for no apparent reason. Today Hollywood vaults contain films of this sort that were made after the generation battle had cooled; they are no longer box office...
...Stefan Kanfer's "Words from Watergate" [Aug. 13] is the most incisive analysis of the Watergate mess that I have yet read. How right he is in realizing that those tidy adjectives, nouns and verbs can soften the grossest indiscretions and crimes...
...haste to play the role of the omniscient Negro scholar, the professor has descended to a level of reportage suggestive of the grossest kind of journalistic and scientific irresponsibility. ...He genuinely believes, it seems, that there is no significance in cultural blackness unless it apes or imitates white cultural norms every step of the way....There is a chauvinism in these beliefs that is both obvious and despicable...
Evolutionary Outgrowth Sir / The grossest misinterpretation of my therapy process is revealed in your story on the encounter movement [April 30]. You say: "No effort is made to understand the emotions that have so painfully-and dangerously-been aroused." The very essence of my approach is to trace the etiology of the neurotic feeling to the childhood relationships with significant people in the patient's life. And my therapy consists of a continued and prolonged effort to reeducate, reconstruct and support the patient in his/her efforts to find a constructive way of dealing with emotions...
...police officers. Yet, Liacos merely accuses the Desk Commander of falling to provide "proper and timely medical examination" of Largey and Doyle. From Liacos's even findings, it was clearly a matter of rushing Largey to the hospital as quickly as possible: to do otherwise would constitute the grossest negligence...