Word: slimed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hard to comprehend the morality and sense of responsibility of a man who savagely guards a tattered personal dignity at the cost of dragging through mud and slime the most august political office of the U.S. Why won't this man resign? America is trudging through a leaderless period, and it has long been obvious that Nixon, whether guilty or innocent, is no longer capable of filling the leadership...
...there is an archetypal adversary, an angry Amos unearthing evil in America today, it is Jack Anderson. He is the latter-day, stinging serpent of the Lord at the bottom of the bureaucracy, slugging away at slime and moral decay, six days a week...
...Their courtly language lacks pronouns-Papik refers to himself as "a man" -and the same selflessness marks their customs. "Be one!" Papik says, urging another hunter to share his wife. In fact, Inuit share everything from basic emotion to their most irresistible delicacy-a violet paste made of bird slime, seal guts, maggoty meat, rotten blubber and premasticated birds. Papik's father deliberately wounds himself to make his injured son less lonely in his pain...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON, Doctor of Gonzo Journalism, is like the Creature from the Bottom of the Deep. Dripping with the swampy, polluted waters of the seventies, shaking off the slime and lurching out on to the land, he is by now one of the most exciting journalistic voices in America. As a victim of our time he has learned to speak its language--of drugs, of violent energy, of The Fear. And then, turning upon it enraged, with instincts born out of the furtive life of the underground mind, he pounces on the most visceral and alarming rhythms...
...friend before the arrest, Niesewand said: "The worst part is the grinding social pressure -not knowing whether one or both of us will be attacked for being Commie rats. As one lady put it at a recent dinner party, why don't I pull myself out of the slime in which I wallow...