Word: shitful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This new populism is not the demagogy of a Bilbo or a Vardaman who used the black man as well as Wall Street as their whipping boys. Vardaman, often spoken of as the "Negro-cussin' Vardaman" and the "Great White Chief," dressed himself completely in white--white suit, white shit, white tie, white hat and white shoes, symbolical of white supremacy, as well as set himself up as the champion of the farmer against predatory bankers and businessmen whom he saw as locusts devouring the farmer. Finch, however, won over 80 per cent of the black vote in his gubernatorial...
...There's nothing that people really give a shit about outside of themselves," said Jeffrey B. Hoyt '81, Committee on Housing and Undergraduate Life representative for the freshman class, said yesterday. "They're not willing to give time to anything that doesn't touch them directly...
...family is reserved for Tony's brother Frank Jr., a priest. When Frank shows up at home one day with the news that he is leaving the priesthood, the family is despondent--except for Tony. As he explains to his brother, "I always felt like I was the shit of the family, but maybe if you're not so perfect I ain't so shit...
...Back in the saddle again..." he pirouettes madly across the room to turn it off--that scene alone may be worth the price of admission. Similarly, a scene in which he sits in the bathroom taping his book is hilarious. Constantly interrupted, he finally tells an offending party to "shit and shove it under the door," Cary Grant with a fine measure of '70s Bogart...
...done nothing at all. Without consulting me, the Great Cosmos had made me gay. And with my preteenage intuition. I apparently realized what I know explicitly now: that no theory of accountability, no morality, could judge me for something that was beyond my control. I was not shit...