Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the less than solid evidence and Leroy's protestations of innocence, Judge Pascal refused to release the notary on bail. Ultra-leftists subsequently formed an action committee to support Pascal's tough stand, contending that the case represented "the people's struggle against the bourgeoisie." As the trial became political, it rapidly outgrew Bruay. Pro-and anti-Leroy rallies were held in many cities of northern France. Even Jean-Paul Sartre got into the act. An article in his far-left newspaper, La Cause du Peuple, quoted Bruay miners, who demanded: "Give [Leroy...
Never another visit to Tralfamadore? "No!" says Kurt Vonnegut, squinting into the sun. "Never again." Breakfast of Champions is ultra-Vonnegut-marked by melancholy and self-indulgence, most visible in the graffiti-style drawings he has scattered through it. But it is a true creation, and true creations do not die - thus Noah and his Ark, the Adventure of the Norwood Builder and Son of Frankenstein. And soon...
...both matters of law and face-to-face encounters. Regardless of whether or not he is a believer, in matters of birth, marriage, death or divorce, an Israeli Jew is totally subject to the rulings of rabbinical courts. In the Mea Shearim quarter of Jerusalem, home of many ultra-Orthodox Jews, young men wearing dark frock coats and prayer curls regularly hurl stones at buses that tour the sector on the Sabbath, violating what they consider...
...years ago, Novelist Duffy (Wounds, The Paradox Players) contributed an essay about the sad post-Darwinian view of animals (as failed, and therefore negligible, members of the tree of life) to a book called Animals, Men and Morals. An ultra-worthy anthology, which goes way beyond anti-blood-sport rhetoric, Animals (Taplinger; $6.50) has been widely unread. Much of its message has been palatably repackaged as a sugar-coated pill in All Heaven in a Rage. Whether the public will lick off the sugar and leave the pill behind is a question. Timothy Foote
...that he have God-like attributes. Although he is actually a craftsman, many would deny him the human right to be fallible. He is not supra-human, but rather he is subject to the same fallibility as his human peers. The contemporary American physician enjoys an inflated aura of ultra-professionalism, one not so readily attainable by any other occupational group in our society. Indubitably this in itself has become a source of contention between the doctor and his patient, paternalism being the most definable of the malignant outgrowths. The modern American doctor commands salaries way beyond those of virtually...