Word: malevolentisms
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Sir / I am amazed at how wonderfully articulate our third, fourth-and fifth-grade children have become. Isn't it a tribute to the quality of the education they are receiving that they can already comprehend such descriptive characterizations as "truly malevolent, undependable, untrustworthy, yet powerful and dangerous"?
The paranoid thriller is an expanding genre in movies and popular fiction.* The idea is to start from a thinly fictionalized version of a political tragedy like one of the Kennedy assassinations and build on it a thickly embroidered explanation that caters to the suspicion that such murders are plotted...
Writing in the current issue of Political Science Quarterly, Arterton cites a national 1962 study that indicated that children in the third, fourth and fifth grades overwhelmingly idealized the President, viewing him as "benevolent, omniscient, omnipotent, protective, in fallible, diligent and likable." The professor's own much more limited...
No word could be less appropriate to a description of this foreigner's sensibilities than "alert." He moves through a series of bizarre dreams interspersed with memories of two episodes: a menage a trois involving his psychiatrist friend, Peter; and a parallel affair on a pleasure cruise, with a young...
In a 1957 interview, she observed that "you have to have a bit of malice to be a good hostess," and she has been a very good hostess indeed. "I'm afraid I'm rather malevolent about people," she says without a hint of contrition. Embroidered on a...