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...concerned with scatology, illicit behavior, drunkenness, sex and genitalia. About 12 pages are given over to what is undoubtedly the most frequently used obscenity in the English tongue, the ever versatile F word. No other slang expression approaches it in its variety of permutation, application, hyphenation and intensification (e.g., unf -- -- -- ingbelievable). In its earliest recorded use (late 15th century), this word was possibly already taboo, says Lighter, who found it in a rhyming couplet written in cipher. The dictionary is rife with other synonyms for copulation; some are splendidly ingenious (for example, to have one's greens); most, however...
...following is the excepted text of a speech delivered by Huot Sambath, member of the Cambodian National United Front's Central Committee on the fourth anniversary of the killing of four students at Kent State University. Huot Sambath made his remarks in Belgrade while serving as the UNF's ambassador to Yuguslovia. The speech was translated for The Crimson by Seth M. Kupferberg...
...serious intent are likely to find Interim disappointing. It is not only cheapened by arty metaphors ("I ceased to pluck at the sleeve of time") and an ornate vocabulary (including "presby-opic," "subfusc," "lincrusta," "curtilage"), but also lacks the dramatic quality of Author Hutchinson's earlier novels (The Unf or gotten Prisoner-TIME, Feb. 26, 1934; Shining Scabbard-TIME, Dec. 28, 1936). Like The Keys of the Kingdom, Interim is a natural for Hollywood-where its spirituality will be melodramatized, its lincrusta made less subfusc...
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