Word: peeper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last year I thought the CRIMSON was a good Thing. An intelligently liberal peeper with high standards of journalism, and a lot of real verve in their writing. This year I am disappointed. The verve has decayed to smugness and smirks. The intelligent liberalism has degenerated into a slavish following of the Democratic Party line, and your editorial page reeks with complacency...
Critics called him "snoop" and "transom-peeper." One starlet angrily described his visit as a "personal affront." Ronald Reagan, president of the Screen Actors Guild, righteously insisted that "Hollywood is pretty much a goes-to-bed-with-the-chickens town." The press joined in with a delighted chorus of catcalls...
Willingham's first novel, End as a Man, published in 1947 when he was only 24, was a keyhole report on life in a Southern military college; righteously indignant in one breath and droolingly prurient the next, it read like the notes of a small-town peeper on the broom closet of hell. Some critics went part way with Farrell's estimate of Willingham, but others rebuked the book as a discharge of childish hostility by a very young man. But when the book was twice taken to court for obscenity (and twice acquitted), readers caught the scent...