Word: viciousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...United States is "getting into the vicious cycle we had during the days of the Great Depression," he said. Workers are beginning to exhaust their unemployment insurance benefits and will soon be unable to make consumer purchases, he added...
According to Dabney, the report that Jefferson had fathered the children was spread in a newspaper article in 1802 by one James T. Callender, whom Dabney described as "a vicious unscrupulous drunkard" who was angry at President Jefferson for refusing to appoint him postmaster at Richmond. An Ohio newspaper revived this charge in 1873, citing what Dabney termed the "testimony of two aged blacks." Historian Malone called the testimony a contrived bit of "abolitionist propaganda...
...Bunuel's Simon of the Desert, among other things, a film from the director's Mexican period about a Christian mystic who moves to the top of a high pillar in the middle of the desert, hauling up his food by ropes, to commune with The Lord. As vicious about Catholicism as usual, with Bunuel's only attempt I've over seen to make a statement about "beat" culture (which, strangely, he likens to hell). Off the Wall, "Coffeehouse of the Arts," is at 861 Main Street in Cambridge, near Central Square...
...character. Holly Martins, writer of westerns and most idealist of the idealist Americans, arrives in Vienna to work for his old friend Harry Lime--who turns out to be dead, run over by his own chauffeur, Calloway, the British military policeman, knows Lime has been mixed up in a vicious black market in penicillin, and Martins undertakes the job of clearing his friend's name and finding his real murderer. Since most mysteries are set in a modern city like Los Angeles or in remote, isolated countryside. Graham Greene's brilliant choice of postwar Vienna is especially impressive--it manages...
...protagonist of a novel that is lived, not written. He tells him what to do, where to go, how to talk, whom to pursue, when to woo. Soon after quitting his humble job to follow Fabré's precepts, Nicholas becomes wildly, improbably successful. He also becomes a vicious, amoral predator, the corroded vessel of all Fabré's frustration and hate...