Word: odious
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...keep the sleeping-bag and knapsack-carrying youths coming. What better way to dispel the odious myth of "the rich American...
...Poverty is an odious good: it is a stimulant to business," said the Wife of Bath in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. So much for the "novel theory" that "Poverty May Be Good for You" [June...
Unlike their more evanescent brothers of the flesh, the great figures of fiction are not covered by the laws of libel. Did not Sherlock Holmes admirers helplessly endure odious allegations asserting that Dr. Watson was a woman? Accordingly, anyone fond of Midshipman, Lieutenant, Captain, Commodore or Admiral Horatio Hornblower naturally approaches this new biography with suspicion. Will Britain's second greatest seaman, one wonders, be spuriously presented, for example, as a Hermaphrodite Brig? Or Nelson's long-lost younger brother...
...President-Designate Bok stated yesterday, "For the second time this year visitors at Harvard have been prevented from speaking by the obstructive acts of others. Such behavior cannot be defended in any setting, but it is particularly odious in a university which rests its existence and hope of progress on the free expression of ideas...
...deal more than a mere fleshed-out case study for advocates of Women's Liberation. Carrie Snodgrass, as the harassed housewife nagged to distraction by her socially-climbing husband (Richard Benjamin), makes a token rebellion in her affair with a semi-famous writer who turns out to be equally odious. They are horrible not only because they are men but because they are horrible. Snodgrass is sensitive and put-upon because she is telling the story, but even in objective terms she is clearly the good...