Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...survey of his fellow sufferers, found that many of them are facing the same dilemma. Rarely will a corporation or foundation give money to a nonaccredited college, but without that money, the college usually cannot meet the standards of its regional association. "It would seem," says Hurley, "like a vicious circle. You need accreditation to get money, and money to get accreditation." Examples of campuses caught in the circle...
...bullyboys in the streets, cynicism as heavy as the makeup on the faces of the omnipresent prostitutes. The Threepenny Opera echoed that city. Vaguely based on John Gay's 18th century original, the German libretto by Poet Bert Brecht (now a propaganda wheel in East Germany) had a vicious underdog snarl ("First fill our bellies, then talk morality") and magnificent, vulgar humor. Like the rest of the work, Mack the Knife* was a bitter satire of society and of schmalzy, popular music; it gave a ragtime catalogue of murder, arson and rape...
...Judge Wendell of the probate court, bought it for him and his recent bride. Like Eliphalet, though a gentler soul by far, the Reverend Holmes would have no Unitarian nonsense; and for this he lost his parish. During the early 1800s, the Commonwealth's churches were plagued with vicious internal schisms of this sort, and the Reverend Holmes did better than most when he took sixty parishioners with...
FRENCH GIRLS ARE VICIOUS (177 pp.)-James T. Farrell-Vanguard...
...sort of protest against a poor slum kid's lot that dumb, brutish Studs himself might have written if he could write. But the U.S. stopped singing the hard-time blues, and time moved on, forgetting to leave James T. Farrell a forwarding address. French Girls Are Vicious, a book of short stories, is mainly steamed up about sex, or the lack of it, and might be subtitled "the pursuit of unhappiness...