Word: vitriolic
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Alas, today's press background in general tends more towards gargle than vitriol. Peter Bogdanovich, film buff extraordinaire and doubtless nice guy, fashions a Sherwood Anderson-cum-Texas dialect-cum-hokum pastiche, The Last Picture Show, and gets praised by Life for bringing life back to movies. Stanley Kubrick--more impressive pictorially, bearded and brooding--reeks of intellect for as stodgy a publication as Saturday Review...
...Moment. Baroody is a mass of conflicting nationalities and interests. His family is half-Christian and half-Moslem; though he represents the most orthodox Moslem country in the world, he is a Christian. He can deliver anti-Western diatribes with as much vigor and vitriol as a 1950s Pravda editorial, yet he has an American wife and his four children received U.S. educations. A product of the American University in Beirut, Baroody has been a friend of King Feisal since their youth. He supervised the education abroad of the King's seven sons, and is reputedly adviser...
...motive is obvious: China's current leaders are sparing no effort to dissociate themselves from the ideological frenzy that threatened China with total chaos and mystified the watching world for much of the 1960s. Though its press and radio still crackle with anti-U.S. and anti-Soviet vitriol, Peking is in the midst of a prodigious effort to demonstrate that China is once again in the hands of responsible moderates...
...named UNSELL, which was backed by some of the leaders of the trade, including Maxwell Dane of Doyle Dane Bernbach Inc. Last week UNSELL began displaying its antiwar campaign: 125 posters, 33 TV commercials and 31 radio spots, all of them pitched to political moderates and free of radical vitriol. In one TV ad, a pie is cut at a dinner table, and a black man, an old lady and a hardhat receive small slivers served up by Uncle Sam. A military man in gaudy uniform gets three-quarters of the pie, which he gulps down noisily. If radio...
...thereby tying up traffic, dumping raw sewage into waterways and threatening to turn off New York City's water supply. Under those crisis circumstances, budget negotiations could scarcely be conducted in the cool, rational manner appropriate for such complex issues. Instead, they were carried on with bad manners, vitriol and vilification...