Word: obloquy
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...honorably ineligible for the struggle of life." At Christ Church College, Oxford, Home could not earn his blue at cricket, never matching his brilliant 66 on a sticky wicket for Eton against Harrow. He caught Neville Chamberlain's eye and became his parliamentary private secretary-only to suffer obloquy later for having ridden with Chamberlain through the cheering crowds at Munich. In the 1945 Labor landslide, he even managed to lose his family's "safe" Parliament seat in Lanarkshire. In 1951, he went off to the musty House of Lords after acceding to his father's title...
...Most self-quest novels are assembled with interchangeable parts, and The Forger can be assembled and disassembled rather rapidly. Part 1 (colloquy): "What do you want out of life, Rufe?" Part 2 (ecstasy): " 'Yes, yes,' she said, 'I want you. Take me, Rufus.'" Part 3 (obloquy): "Nobody believes in trees, or love making or beauty or ugliness or God." Part 4 (philosophy): "All we can do is touch hands, all of us, and be gentle with each other, as strangers on the same earth...
...about Pogo, the next she is braining Hero Harvey for ripping open her blouse (with cretinous whinnies of "Open sesame!"). And where it was right for the hero to blow his brains out in the book, it seems pure melodrama for him to rage off in the film to obloquy and oblivion on his trusty green motorcycle...
...Exercise of the free intellect will in no way endanger the country's internal security," the statement says, and it asserts, "Not only teachers, but all Americans, we insist, must be free from trial by publicity--from what Mr. Justice Black has called 'exposure, obloquy, and public scorn...
...actor, who dies with his battered top hat on, raving: "I always longed for a knife to free me ... Then what we call the spirit would rise up from the meaningless carcass." Cinemagician Bergman seems to see both men as despairing artists whose creative imaginations doom them to social obloquy and the distrust and disdain of hardheaded authority. What scant optimism there is in this fatalistic philosophy lies in the final triumph of the Magnetic Health Theater: the artist suffers, but art endures...