Word: litterbug
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pesticides are threatening remote penguins or pelicans; perhaps he could do with some of the humility toward animals that St. Francis tried to graft onto Christianity. The false assumption that nature exists only to serve man is at the root of an ecological crisis that ranges from the lowly litterbug to the lunacy of nuclear proliferation. At this hour, man's only choice is to live in harmony with nature, not conquer...
Could Chief Justice Earl Warren, 76, be a litterbug? That's what Robert I. Schramm, 29, legislative assistant to Georgia's Senator Herman Talmadge, claimed. Schramm bought a Washington town house bordering a vacant lot leased by the Supreme Court for employee parking. Evidently the lot was also used by the whole neighborhood as a combination dump and doggie-run. Schramm tried complaining to the Supreme Court building's superintendent, the Board of Health, the Supreme Court marshal and the coal company that owns the lot-all of whom passed the buck. Schramm finally filed suit, naming...
...Alice into a winsome memorable addition to the antiwar repertory that young singers across the land are compiling. "You want to know," he asks a sergeant at the induction center, "if I'm moral enough to join the Army, burn women, kids, houses and villages after being a litterbug...
...Kitaj throws the book at the viewer. He believes Francis Bacon the greatest British painter since Gainsborough, and endorses his statement that "Art is a game by which man distracts himself." And Kitaj provides enough puns and anagrams for a month of Sundays. His paintings are a kind of litterbug's playground, scattered with the paperwork of mass communications. There are doodles drawn from Erasmus' notebooks, titles that refer to obscure Marxist-Leninist deviationists. In one corner of his An Early Europe is pasted the source photograph of neoclassical nudes that inspired the painting's composition. He will borrow...