Word: tripe
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Hobnobbing with the great, M.G.M. ate tripe with Rodin, introduced Diaghilev to Picasso, was present when Clemenceau offered Claude Monet a seat in the French Academy (Monet refused). With such a star-studded cast, he can afford to throw away in a footnote the fact that Lenin once wanted to be an artist's model, gave up because he was too short...
...what is to prevent the group from plumping for head-hunting or cannibalism, or destructionism or any other "ism" if it's the group's idea of "being happier, more rational and humane?" Brameld's "dementiaism" sounds like a lot of John Dewey's tripe warmed over...
...What is really disturbing," Inez Robb went on, "is the discovery that the [U.S.], despite free public education and a high literacy rate, contains so many morons who will support these gamey magazines. Teenagers are abandoning comic books in favor of this exposé tripe." Instead of suing, Columnist Robb said, Doris Duke should have organized "an old-fashioned vigilante party and horsewhipped the shabby crew responsible for this verbal assault. A cat-o'-nine-tails speaks a powerful language that might even penetrate the elephant hide and conscious of these lice...
...Commandant's term at an end, Cliff Gates served out his time as chief of the Marine Corps Schools at Quantico, Va. This week old (60) Leatherneck Gates, D.S.C., Navy Cross, D.S.M., Legion of Merit, Silver Star, was retired with a 17-gun salute and an elaborate ceremony. "Tripe," hard-boiled Cliff Gates called it, blinking down the mist in his eyes. The country needs toughening up, he said, and the Marine Corps needs "tough fighters." After all, "that's what...
Tired of "all the Arthurian tripe about the Holy Grail," Novelist Costain has written his own version of what happened to the cup from which Christ drank at the Last Supper. His hero is Basil of Antioch, a low-born artisan hired by Joseph of Arimathea to fashion a silver casing to hold the homely original. While young Basil is still wrestling with clay models, he also begins a long wrestle with sacred and profane love in the persons of 1) Deborra, the rich Christian girl he marries, and 2) Helena, a toothsome pagan baggage who has bewitched him with...