Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Messaggero wondered ungallantly (and, as it turned out, incorrectly) whether the priest's prospective bride might be pregnant. Priests in the vicariate clucked disapprovingly about Musante's strange behavior these past few months. "Many of us were convinced," said one primly, "that Monsignor Musante was a sick man. Recently he didn't seem him self at all. Perhaps he was the victim of some form of sexual delirium." The most notable change in Musante: he re cently went on a diet, lost as much as 60 lbs. from his portly frame...
...have it both ways. If you think that these issues are purely political--that it's a question of power only--that concerns about academic excellence. University control, grading, personnel--are irrelevant, then say so. I happen to think that these are legitimate concerns, and I'm sick of your dishonesty in exploiting them when you think it expedient and ignoring them when it doesn't suit you. Phillip J. MacDonnell...
...more subtle. All plans aimed entirely at the poor have a basic weakness: since all their money comes from the government, any cut off in the government fiscal supply will instantly kill the plan. Pollack adds that poor-only programs may become over-specialized. If they only treat sick poor people, they may lose touch with the real world of American medicine; their techniques will be fine for the ghetto, but they won't apply to the majority of the country that isn't poor...
...mean," said Scott, "that I'm a coward, and I have always though that I could get round it by admitting I was a coward. But I can't. I've spent most of my life reading and imagining and talking. This makes me as happy and as sick as most other people are who do their things. But something is pushing me on, or away. I'm getting out of my book...
...course, there might have been some sick humor in this book, if Adler had not scrupulously avoided all of Nixon's Red-baiting witticisms from Joe McCarthy days, or his pre-assassination remarks on he Kennedys (Jack and Bobby). On the other hand, Alder evidently decided that Adlai Stevenson (who died of natural causes) was acceptable comic terrain for the book, so among Nixon's Wit and Humor is the gem, "Stevenson is a pathetic Hamlet strolling across the political stage. To be or not to be--that is the question of him. And I assure...