Word: slanderous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This last is the point of the return of Jimmy's wife, which is motivated less metaphysically by their powerful sexual love. It is hard to imagine any other motivation being sufficiently strong, for Jimmy is a bad lot: a slander-mouthed railer, a malicious, nasty, monstrously selfish barbarian, and a bit of a paranoiac as well. His creator views him with a bracingly cool eye, never veiling him in a romantic haze, never losing his objectivity, explaining but not excusing. Since the author never loses sight of the fact that his hero is a "bloody bastard," the audience...
...year-old Coya Knutson might have expected. Her vacillating husband, who supported her opponent in September's primary but threw his weight behind Democrat Coya before her defeat in last week's election (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), was bringing a $200,000 alienation-of-affections and slander suit against Billy Kjeldahl, 30, the lady's administrative assistant. Billy had not only "interfered" with his marital rights, charged 50-year-old Innkeeper Andy; he had also called the plaintiff "an impotent old alcoholic...
...Democratic Congressional nominee John L. Saltonstall Jr. '38, was posted yesterday in University dining halls and entries by members of the Harvard Eisenhower Republican Club. The bill drew severe criticism last night from Harvard Young Democratic Club president Fred M. Leventhal '60, who denounced it as a "vicious McCarthyistic slander-sheet...
...York Times Critic Jack Gould thought the cloak-and-daggerotype-which mixed painstaking research with fantastic guesswork-an insult to a government "with which this country maintains formal, if very strained, diplomatic relations." The Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. agreed. "Smiling Mike" Menshikov called the play "a filthy slander against the Soviet Union . . . incompatible with international standards." With that, he fired off a protest to the State Department...
...Maritain, "all this talk about American materialism is no more than a curtain of silly gossip and slander." He coolly measures U.S. attitudes by materialist standards and finds that the label simply will not fit: "America is not egoist; for the common consciousness of America, egoism is shameful . . . There is no avarice in the American cast of mind. The American people are neither squeamish nor hypocritical about the importance of money in the modern world . . . The average European cares about money as well as the average American, but he tries to conceal the fact, for he has been accustomed...