Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." James's obsessive abhorrence of smoking is more than matched today by members of militant groups who, to protect their lungs and nostrils, seem determined to restrict the consumption of tobacco to consenting adults behind closed doors...
...MIND IF YOU SMOKE...
After the RSVP on a dinner invitation, GASPers warn putative guests: NSP -meaning, in Jacobeanese, "no stinking puffumigation." Even cab drivers lecture passengers. Says a sign in a Manhattan taxi: YOUR RIGHT TO SMOKE ENDS WHERE MY NOSE BEGINS...
...founder, Minneapolis Tribune Columnist Will Jones, explains: "The whole idea is that anyone who even ventures to smoke in the presence of another person is a slob. If someone smokes and gets cancer, we say, 'Good, there goes another smoker.'" While many tobaccophobes maintain that their aim is to "educate" smokers, they have not in the past been noticeably successful-as witness a turn-of-the-century campaign to censor a nursery rhyme because Old King Cole "called for his pipe." In a fit of moral fervor, the town fathers in Longboat...
...cynicism. The final chorale, describing death as part of life's "delight and woe," is sung to A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, while the orchestra counters with a cabaret tune of incredibly sweet pathos. From this juxtaposition emerges a requiem for a civilization literally going up in smoke, but the hymn's chords reassert the promise of redemptive life...