Word: putdown
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...Jews have devised a saying to prove just about anything, natural enough for a people whose recorded history stretches back more than 2,500 years. But they have also framed the best single-sentence putdown for anyone who cites one of them as an example to make his point: "'For instance' is not proof...
...Women are more aware of the personal worth and professional potential of each other now. I too had sung the chorus, "I'd rather talk to men than women" and "coeds are all parrots." We joined in the great putdown, even of each other, and then, being outside the Brotherhood of Men, had either to go it alone second class or latch on to a man who would give us his "success...
This hardfisted putdown of men, marriage, femininity, etc., will surely rob women of something very special; the warm helping hand of man, whose natural instinct is to share, protect and love...
Times must be hard for the enemies of capitalist decadence; Russia's Literaturnaya Gazeta has laid down a heavy ideological barrage against Film Director Alfred Hitchcock, accusing him of "antihumanistic attitude toward art" and "psychological sadism." But as so often happens, a Communist putdown is a bourgeois blurb. "Millions of his spectators," says the Gazeta, "take Hitchcock's sinister feelings seriously and sigh with relief when the dark in the movie house is dispelled and the lights come on again...
...years of his life, unable to write, staring out of his window in Christiania. "Leave that to me," he snapped at a visitor who asked how he felt about God. And one day, when a nurse announced that he was feeling better, the old curmudgeon found the ultimate putdown. "On the contrary!" he said, and died. · Brad Darrach