Word: guttered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...combination of ultra-rightist, 19th century political values and a unique, personality-oriented, gutter-sniping editorial style, modeled on the journalistic mode of the now defunct Hearst papers, have made Loeb the best known publisher in America. His power base is the Manchester Union Leader, which he bought in 1946, the only state-wide newspaper in New Hampshire. He is also the principal owner of the New Hampshire Sunday News and the Vermont Sunday News. For a good example of where he is at stylistically--if not politically--one might turn to the New Hampshire Sunday paper's response...
...kind of people who want their news all bundled up and laid at their doorstep every week, people who can't confront the truth. Time magazine would never dare print the truth. You know what the truth is, the truth is Mr. Jones throwing up in the gutter, and Time would never print that...
...best partly true, but that is how he appears to audiences who are exhausted and on fire at the end of a concert. Springsteen is not a golden California boy or a glitter queen from Britain. Dressed usually in leather jacket and shredded undershirt, he is a glorified gutter rat from a dying New Jersey resort town who walks with an easy swagger that is part residual stage presence, part boardwalk braggadocio. He nurtures the look of a lowlife romantic even though he does not smoke, scarcely drinks and disdains every kind of drug...
...forthrightness immediately stirred up a summer storm of old-fashioned indignation. Dr. W.A. Criswell, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dallas, the largest Southern Baptist congregation, declared himself "aghast" and added: "I cannot think that the First Lady of this land would descend to such a gutter type of mentality." Mormon Elder Gordon B. Hinckley called a press conference to support "chastity before marriage and fidelity after marriage." New York's Governor Hugh Carey, a Roman Catholic with twelve children, unctuously observed: "I guess I believe, in the words that Frankie [Sinatra] sings, 'Love and marriage...
...ignore art as so much unnecessary garbage," he howls at his tormentors, "or you blame it for your own crimes." Even members of Enderby's creative writing class see him as a "misleading reactionary bastard." He has failed, it appears, to see merit in their "free verse and gutter vocabulary...