Word: slurs
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...cover story on Mark Spitz, America's secret weapon for reversing the gold flow, goes well beyond his performance at the Olympic Games. Associate Editor Ray Kennedy obtained a rare interview with Spitz that provides glimpses of the athlete's personality and his recollection of a religious slur at the 1968 Olympics. Champions, it turns out, are highly resilient people...
...cover photo of Senator Thomas Eagleton suggests that the vice-presidential candidate might be more than a bit "out of focus." Such a subtle personal slur represents distasteful, amateurish journalism...
...even ten rows back, the words can scarcely be heard. They exist not as nouns and verbs, but as a physical mass, a hot, indistinct slur like sausage meat: ground out of the famous lips, eaten by the mike, driven into banks of amplifiers and rammed out through two immense blocks of speakers high on either side of the stage. The vowels mix stickily with the air of the auditorium, already saturated by the fume of tens of thousands of packed bodies, the smoke of 50,000 cigarettes and a few pounds of weed, forming an acrid blue vault overhead...
...killing of innocent babies immoral only in the eyes of Roman Catholics? When vetoing the New York abortion law repeal, Governor Rockefeller remarked: "I do not believe it right for one group to impose its vision of morality on an entire society." His gratuitous statement is a slur not only on Roman Catholics but also on all people of compassion-Protestants, Jews, and those of no particular faith -who saw the present New York State abortion law for what it really is: legalized murder...
...Bowdler" intelligent enough to attend a performance of Hamlet should realize that "Polack" is simply the Polish word for "Pole" and not the ethnic slur the Polack joke craze has made...