Word: horridness
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...fair, Agnew did not invent the guilt-by-verbal-association form of terminological confusion. Some years ago, the phrase "radical conservative" was used in both liberal and radical circles. This horrid hybrid, radical conservative, every bit as monstrous as radical liberal, was supposed to describe activist conservatives, such as members of the John Birch society, who were inclined to ideologize their principles and who exhibited some stylistic similarities to leftist radicals. People have called themselves "radical conservatives," meaning that their conservatism was fundamental and thoroughgoing. Similarly, a man might -though few, if any, have done so in recent years-call...
...Lately a horrid suspicion has been growing. Tales of the difficulty, expense and frustration of getting repairs for the car, the dryer, the TV set or just about anything were first whispered and then shouted through the land. The advent of the computer brought a quantum jump in dunning letters for bills already paid. Travelers swiftly spanned the oceans only to spend hours circling airports back home?and then find that their baggage had flown on to some destination of its own. At length the telephone?lifeline of American society and quintessential product of American efficiency?brought not the voices...
...visible, massive body of evidence to disprove them. Yet if Chambers' judgment is fashionable, his spiritual trajectory was not traditional. For one thing he became a Quaker, not a Catholic. If he found God, he did not wholly retreat into the pursuit of private salvation. "I am the horrid brat of historicity," he explains to Buckley. The dominant experience of his life, and of the age, had involved concepts of history and political change-and Chambers could not quite forgo them. But for the great labor of trying to save "the unsavable society" politically, Chambers invoked the classic symbol...
Tonight, the two teams meet again at Watson ?ink. With victories over both Norwich and Middlebury, the Indians are beginning to believe in themselves again. and unless Harvard rebounds from its horrid performance against Northeastern two nights ago. Dartmouth might capture the win that it feels is a year overdue...
...movement, as much as six to twelve beats a second. Then, as if the Schumann had not sufficiently apprized the audience of a certain weakness in the area of intonation on the part of the first violinist, his opening phrase in the Menuetto was positively horrid. Here I pause to remark that throughout the evening Alexander Schneider played badly out of tune and with a thin, unpleasant sound. I cannot either explain or excuse such playing as no other member of the ensemble was so afflicted. His ear-jarring performance marred much of the concert of the audience...