Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Herlihy's second play has two characters, though one of them does not utter a word. She is Lonesome Sally (Rochelle Oliver), a hooker shacked up in a motel room with a black-clad psychopath (Larry Bryggman) who calls himself Terrible Jim Fitch and robs churches for a living. Lonesome Sally is in a state of shock; Terrible Jim has already cut up her face, and during his long rant of self-justification and jaunty mockery and bewildered rage it becomes clear that her revenge will be to maneuver him into murdering her. Unfortunately, the tension and terror...
Prosecutor: Didn't you know that it was an unfit word to use in front of children...
Prosecutor: Did you know that writing that word was a crime...
While the four-letter word under discussion has become commonplace in the works of many modern novelists, its use is far from accepted in high school English classes. Any teacher who makes it the theme of a classroom exercise can expect a strong reaction - if not from the students themselves, at least from their parents. Which is what happened to Mrs. Timbrook, 36, a truck driver's wife and the mother of nine children, who teaches at Lamphere High School in Madison Heights, Mich...
News of the highly unusual lesson spread quickly through the school. Annoyed by the students' snickering, Mrs. Timbrook decided to discuss the word in class the very next day. She printed the word on the blackboard for each of her four English classes and asked each what it meant. "I was led to do that by God," Mrs. Timbrook, a deeply religious woman, later recalled. "I didn't know what I was going to do until I walked into the classroom...