Word: swearing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Speech of Money. Why did the slave-ship captains of Newport-so scrupulous that they took oaths not to gamble, drink or swear-have no scruples at all about their terrible profession? How could the almost offensively respectable Englishman. John Newton, who eventually switched from slave captain to clergyman, pack chained human beings into a suffocating hold as tightly as "books upon a shelf," and then retire to his well-appointed cabin to read the Bible and pray...
...crisis of conscience he turns in an incriminating letter he has found, signed by his friend's lover, who is quickly expelled. Soon Georges is attracted to Alexandre, a pretty ten-year-old in the lower school. They meet in secret, exchange poems, swear eternal friendship in a blood ceremony. The open, cheerful innocence of the younger boy neutralizes Georges' sexual longings, and the relationship remains on the platonic plane...
...white horse. One day, while cantering across the meadows, his horse threw him and galloped off. When the prince finally caught up with the horse-with the help of a flying monk-it had been appropriated by a peasant girl of such deep dark beauty that you'd swear she was Sophia Loren...
...campaign out of his own pocket or through private financial connections. Since a two-week campaign with any hope of success would cost at least $50,000, that seems to rule out anyone who is not wealthy. As a clincher, the government requires all candidates to swear "adhesion" to Franco's Falange...
Mask of Fear. Dr. Hartogs' eight-letter thoughts on four-letter words are confusing enough to make a saint swear. On the one hand, he says that excessive swearing may be a "symptom of pre-schizophrenic personality disintegration." On the other, he regards the growing use of obscene language as "a rising index of spiritual freedom." But he can't quite tell: it may also be a "mask of fear" and "the last resort of the non-achiever." This is simply to say what has always been known-that dirty words are not always to be taken literally...