Word: pigged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mirror of one's existence." As a result, he will not give credence to laboratory evidence presented by Kate Millett (collected from Drs. Masters and Johnson and Dr. Mary Jane Sherfey) that an artificial phallus could induce, in an hour's time, twenty to fifty orgasms in some guinea-pig of a woman lying on an operating table. For "what value," he wants to know, "would be attached to the mirror of the sexual moment when orgasms could be measured by periodicity and count...
Charlotte, out of friendship for Wilbur, a pig who is to be butchered, promises that she will save him, and does. She does it by playing a trick on Mr. Zuckerman, who owns the farm where Charlotte, Wilbur, Templeton the rat, the cows, and the geese live. She knows that "people are very gullible... easily fooled," so she spins the words "SOME PIG" into her web, in the doorway above Wilbur's pen. Zuckerman is fooled, and decides that "a miracle has happened and a sign has occurred here on earth, right on our farm, and we have no ordinary...
...able to survive the transition intact. Unfortunately, current experience works against him, and his very moral outrages are obscured by political issues. In a country where youth are writing and collectivizing and protesting against institutions which are protecting distorted values, Jimmy Porter is nothing but a snivelling little constipated pig...
...table, perhaps two chairs down, sits a blonde-haired girl whose freshly laundered Can't Bust 'Em coveralls just don't seem to live with her golden bangles and black Guccis. She listens attentively to tortoise-shell, then turns to a friend and says, "Jesus Christ, what a fucking pig...but...where is Riverside...
What about, for example, the aphasics of the counterculture? The ad writer may dingdong catch phrases like Pavlov's bells in order to produce saliva. The Movement propagandist rings his chimes ("Fascist!" "Pig!" "Honky!" "Male chauvinist!") to produce spit. More stammer than grammar, as Dwight Macdonald put it, the counterculture makes inarticulateness an ideal, debasing words into clenched fists ("Right on!") and exclamation points ("Oh, wow!"). Semantic aphasia on the right, semantic aphasia on the left. Between the excesses of square and hip rhetoric the language is in the way of being torn apart...