Word: piggish
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...That was what it had come down to. To restore the balance of power in Eurasia, you have to lick the enemy by persuading 5,369 Vermonters to vote your way instead of his..." The voter is a piggish, self-centered person; and those who pander to him with farm supports, raises in Social Security, veterans' benefits and laws allowing the unions to do what they want are only strengthening this characteristic. -Theodore Chase...
Amen's other self, the darker and deeper one, is best revealed by the large, dramatic print of Adam. In contrast to Michelangelo's noble idealization, this First Man is conceived as a brute. Above his diminutive head, which is dominated by a circle of teeth and a single, piggish eye, he raises a jagged sword. His free hand, meanwhile, hangs ape-like to his knees. Defined in bold line against a blank background, Adam makes a powerful and impressive figure...
...outcome of the struggle for the presidency are fairly routine. Along the way, U.S. students are denounced as dumb fat-cats, professors are cast as unimaginative hacks, trustees are pilloried as cynical businessmen whose least interest is education, and foundations are pictured as troughs fought over by piggish college presidents. Being a professor, an ex-college president and a foundation man himself (Foundation for World Government), Author Barr writes from the inside. There is, unfortunately, too much truth in this cynical and sometimes heavily funny book. There is also enough sophomorish, clouting criticism to remind college grads of long-past...
...Moines and El Paso the kind of jazz they could otherwise never see or hear." He also believes that he has learned as much as any living man about scaling a house, i.e., deciding how many seats to price at $4.80, etc. "You can't get piggish," he says. "On the other hand, you can't be easy. I've got a sixth sense about...
...charming children; the waiters scurrying to & fro with black bread, liverwurst and seidels of foaming beer; chestnut and willow trees; nostalgia, trouble and human patience. But at the heart of these things is a brood of despicable Nazis; and when he comes down to earth to describe their piggish, ruthless natures, Bemelmans drops his magic wand for an unwieldy club. The art and appeal .of The Blue Danube are mostly in the trimmings-and particularly in Author-Artist Bemelmans' 14 admirable, full-color illustrations...