Word: slobbing
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Much of the time, television lurches through the nation's living rooms like an amiable slob-firing off six-shooters, taking pratfalls, scattering money. But on Sunday afternoons, TV slicks down its hair and straightens its tie. Last week TV went on a bigger than usual cultural binge and to the surprise of many proved vastly entertaining as well...
...mailing newspapers carrying a column "tending to incite murder or assassination" of McCarthy. Sample lines from the Greenspun column offered in evidence: "Senator Joe McCarthy has to come to a violent end . . . The chances are that McCarthy will be laid to rest at the hands of some poor, innocent slob whose reputation and life he has destroyed through his ... smear technique." Last week, after a five-day trial, a jury deliberated only two hours and 45 minutes, found Greenspun not guilty. Jurors said later that the Government failed to prove that the Greenspun column actually incited anyone...
...home, just lying on his crumpled, ratty bed, he gets an unforgettable cry of anguish masked in a snarl: "Because I got a hole in my shirt and my brother's wearin' my underwear and my mother's got her thumb in some slob's soup . . . And you're not here because you want to help us . . . You're scared to death of us . . . you shake in your pants every time you pass us on the street." Without hokum, without false sentiment or a spurious stiff upper lip, Crime shaped a rare portrait, well...
Vice meets a harrowing reward. The poor slob is marooned on a desert island with a prissy goggle-eyed missionary lady (Glynis Johns). Rescued at last, he is thanked by the parson "for sparing her." Ted gasps: "Me! and that sanctimonious, psalm-singing little prig! I've never been so insulted in my life!" The idea so unnerves him, in fact, that he gets smashing drunk to drive it out of his mind. Fadeout : Ted at the harmonium, wheezing away at a hymn, and reeking of salvation quite as repulsively as he ever did of booze...
...same advances are also responsible for the distribution and popularity of joke box music and comic books. The present demand for abridgements of worthwhile literature, the commercialization of folk arts, and the popularization of classical music is definitely indicative of our entering the age of the cult of the slob," the concluded...