Word: grievously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Banking heavily on the nostalgic value of the counterculture, High on Gold tries to resuscitate a dead dream. But it makes a grievous mistake, breathing the deceased's own air into the corpse. The result is a fast-moving, mildly absorbing but less than illuminating afternoon of light reading. No new light is shed on the matter, and the narrative shares the traits of its subject to a fault. Absence of mind may be appealing enough in the intoxicated flesh. But mindless prose about mindless protagonists, mindlessly cavorting in and out of bed from Cambridge to California, on this, that...
...good friend of Richard Nixon, Baker seconded his nomination in 1968 and was mentioned as a possible 1972 running mate. A son-in-law of the late Everett Dirksen, Baker is loudly antibusing-"a grievous piece of mischief"-but is a strong backer of open housing, a member of the Commerce and Public Works committees...
...entered the front line of media in-fighting. At its most harmless this includes the kind of toothless satire of such cultural balloons as The Sensuous Woman and Love Story. At its most petty it is a bitter parody of New York critic John Simon, who made the grievous error of disliking The Last Picture Show. (Simon has retaliated by calling Barbra Streisand "a cross between an aardvark and an albino rat surmounted by a horse...
...precisely here: under in the truth will out, or at least it stands a chance. Professor Herrnstein: to his credit, has recognized his responsibility for this ideal by exposing the subject in the marketplace, however irresponsible his scholarship may be. But it would represent a dereliction and perhaps as grievous a blow to intellectual freedom as any the SDS could deliver if the Professor's arguments and prescriptions were to be let stand, by default, as the last word of legitimate scholarship on the subject. Where have the historians been who might have challenged Professor Herrnstein's remarkably naive historical...
...later he resigned, charging that Stokes and his Administration had given aid and support to "enemies of law enforcement." When pressed, Davis produced a list containing the names of several black militants and black organizations. He also fingered the weekly newspaper of the black community which had committed the grievous crime of printing a picture of Davis with the caption: "Benjamin O. Davis--Safety Director?" The fact that $10,000 of the funds in the "Cleveland Now" program, funded by business and private contributions to aid community development, ultimately was used to stock the arsenal of the black organization most...