Word: slouching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Alongside Chomsky's apocalyptic posture-historian as moralist and trac-tarian-Bloodworth has the slouch of a cynic. He is the professional journalist, selecting the amusing or exotic tidbit for the reader's jaded palate. He has seen too much to be shocked by anything or to believe in anything. He survives by his reflex for flippancy. Yet, by a curious paradox, Bloodworth's book eventually seems wiser and even more serious than Chomsky...
...group underwent another sartorial change, this time as longshoremen. The slouch-cap and high-necked-sweater camouflage was given away by their standard weaponry-pickaxes and sledgehammers. However, the unit evolved into what one member called "probably the first community-relations bureau in the country." The policemen learned some Chinese and provided a link between the Chinese population and the bureaucracy of a bewildering Western society...
Lately, paladins of the public interest, including Maverick FCC Commissioner Nicholas Johnson, have risen up against what Johnson calls the commission's "complacent and comfortable hear-no-evil, see-no-evil slouch in front of the radio and television sets of America." Critics of U.S. broadcasting point out that the insufficiency of that service is probably less attributable to the networks than to the local channels. Affiliated stations frequently undercut the networks' efforts to increase cultural and public-affairs programming by refusing to carry it. Similarly, in order to increase profits, the stations stint on such programming...
...sample case suggested that Will drop downstairs and see Halston, the brilliant young milliner and fashion designer. Two hours later, Richardson walked out with a $5,000 order. Halston has designed much of his new collection in Up Tied tie-dyes-even including a group of tie-dyed slouch hats. He loves the medium's "limp, sensuous quality," he says. "The beauty of it is that no two pieces are alike and anybody can wear it-young and not so young...