Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tokyo the neighbors used to step aside to avoid his arrogant, abusive snarls and vicious manner, but none dared criticize Fifty Bells; he was a soldier trained to fight for the Emperor. "He is the finest shepherd dog in Japan," said Kazuo Akai, Fifty Bells's devoted master. But despite the boast and despite his own arrogant strutting, Fifty Bells never got a chance to show his mettle...
Firstly, I cannot see that there is anything essentially wicked or "immoral," much less "lecherous," "vicious," and "insidious," in tutoring Harvard students professionally, or in receiving such tutoring. A tutoring school is neither an "intellectual brothel" (CRIMSON, 1939), nor an "intellectual gas-chamber" (CRIMSON 1948). It is simply an agency where a student may learn in a short time such superficial facts as are at a premium in his examinations...
...tutoring school has returned to Harvard. This vicious institution, which once made a shame and a joke out of a Harvard degree, has regained, so far, only a limited foothold. But in all except size the reborn "tute schools" resemble the lecherous harpies which once crouched over Harvard Square and drained the College of every claim to honor and integrity...
...Labov in their misleading account of the Club 100 incident of last year go out of their way to take a slap at clubmen: "The club men form a very definite class of dwindling importance at Harvard, who only occasionally come out of their isolated routine to demonstrate their vicious and decayed mentalities." This same article demonstrates the authors' impatience and scorn for any methods of reform which do not embody publicity, action, and conflict. Their abhorrence of "evil" is admirable; but the emphasis on "direct action" leads to the suspicion that AYDers are not such masters of practical politics...
...order to have a drama issue. There is certainly a need for a magazine that will print the best student writing both at Harvard and at Radcliffe, but the more poor stuff is published, the fewer writers will contribute. It is up to Signature itself to break the vicious circle by campaigning for the material, and its new contest is an important step. But the editors' obvious fear of being called neurotic or esoteric, coupled with their desire to print trash on the assumption that it will appeal to the non-literary student, limits them to the banal...