Word: heinousness
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...worst of these is the United States Post Office Department. A few years ago they instituted zone numbers and now the second step in their program is revealed in the form of the heinous ZIP Code. In order to head off the loosely organized foes of numerification, the post office is carrying on a large-scale public relations program, including the biggest mass mailing in history. They have even gone so far as to devise a little ZIP Code anthem, arranged for the music of "Zip-a-Dee-Do-Dah," a sacred tune which once signified the beauty of life...
...dramatic relationship between the play per se and the audience. The play is not "lopsided, shambling and confused" if we enter into it with the same lack of knowledge that the Student demonstrates in the first scene. Like us, he wavers between condemnation of Hummel for the heinous sins done to his father and sympathy for the Old Man because of the telling presence of his mortality, the moments when decay and ruin reduce Hummel to a state of absolute dependency on the understanding of at least one human being--in this case, the student. What are we to think...
Among the crimes most heinous in the eyes of the University are those dishonesty or irresponsibility. Cheating and plagiarism, of course, usually result in an unexpected vacation -- and quite often a permanent one. Drunken driving bring the same punishment, as participation in any sort of demonstration. Don't bother trying to lie your way out of trouble, either; it just adds to the punishment, and the University seldom bothers with questions unless it already knows all the answers...
...literary opinion, excuses its sins with its skill. Three years ago. Director Roger Vadim (And God Created Woman) announced his intention to make a movie of it in modern dress. As one man. the powerful Society of Men of Letters rose to protest an artistic crime quite as heinous, the word went around, as "having Madame Bovary dance bebop...
...reads of the horrible, indifferent, heinous crimes of U.S. teen-agers today-appalling! But, then, one goes on to read the rest of your magazine about their glorious elders, and the teen-agers are absolved of guilt. Their so-called "crimes" are the most harmless pranks compared to those who would wield tanks, H-bombs and death for millions. Please, somebody right the world . . . and above all don't blame the young whom we have created in our own image...