Word: venom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pusey directed his venom at "a small group of overeager young in evidence on many campuses." They act, he said, on "the assumption, which they invariably call their 'analysis,' that Western society, and especially American society, is rotten through and through." These "Walter Mittys of the left," declared Pusey, "...fancy themselves rising to positions of command atop the debris as the structures of society come crashing down." He blamed the Dow sit-in at Harvard last October on "some few" students who "managed not only to move the demonstration inside the building, but also to maintain there something very like...
...exceeded only by their common terror of dying alone. The Bouins married in their 60s, and now, in their 70s, their communication is limited to nasty little notes to each other. Simenon car ries their story along less by turns of plot than by twists of the knife. Venom becomes the sole remaining source of vitality. And when Marguerite Bouin dies, her husband, who hated her so, collapses. He has little hope of ever leaving the hospital...
...JOURNAL (Shown on Mondays). "Where Is Prejudice?" Twelve nice, reputedly unbiased college students of differing faiths and races are brought together for an exercise in venom during a week-long workshop. The catalyst fusing their experience turns out to be naked prejudice...
Once the two women appear on the scene, they dominate the play perceptibly and strike plangent chords of passion and pity. Clytemnestra is the first to learn of her raddled husband's purpose. She spews at him the clotted venom of years of pent-up hate in a bad marriage; yet what chokes her spirit is anguish for her child...
...rightly directed almost all the audit's venom at the department's general examinations--an anachronism that ought to be revised drastically or eliminated. Students are convinced, and many professors agree, that generals are little more than a rehash of final exam questions...