Word: rottenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jimmy Connors does not labor under Kant's burden. Sometimes when the tennis gets intense, Connors grabs his crotch and shakes it for the crowd. He pelts the linesmen and judges with rotten language. He shoots his finger. The umpire usually responds with the flustered and ineffectual dismay of a curate who has discovered the servants copulating in his study...
...Love is a rotten substitute for respect, as any married person knows," he added...
...whole world is so rotten with reverence for pelf, one is not surprised to see a work of art esteemed only for its cash value. In today's world economy, which resembles nothing so much as Goya's picture of Saturn eating his children, art is just one more object of sacrifice...
...Rotten writing is scarcely a new problem. Napoleon's script was so miserable that one of his generals once mistook a letter of his for battle orders. Charles Hamilton, a Manhattan dealer in autographs and manuscripts, contends that Writer Gertrude Stein's oblique prose style may be explained by the fact that compositors often misread her cryptic script. Poet William Butler Yeats often could not read his own work. Horace Greeley, the editor of the old New York Tribune, had a notoriously illegible scrawl. He once scribbled a note to a reporter telling him he was fired...