Word: hideously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Arrowsmith employs low-key tones and rolling prose, but they only make his barbs the sharper. University administrators, he says, "have, quite literally, nothing to say," so they talk "dreary rubbish." Faculties are "caught both in the hideous jungle of academic bureaucracy and their own blind professional conservatism." Many doctoral dissertations are "patient parsing of the obvious and the irrelevant," yielding "laboriously trivial discoveries." It all adds up to "a vast educational enterprise built entirely upon a caste of learned men whose learning has no relevance to the young. It is a vision of madness accomplished...
...things go too far. Roberts has a penchant for jarring a hideous orange and a vile pink together. Everywhere. Orange chairs with pink seats. Pink and orange wall patterns. It's painful...
...Italian farmers pelted a UFO near Milan in October 1954 with rotten oranges, scoring, they claimed, some hits. They did not hit any of the little men, who were about 4 ft. high, wore light-colored pants, helmets and other equipment, and were "scurrying" about. UFOs were bigger and "hideous" in the sighting that was vouchsafed to Farmer Alexander Hamilton, of LeRoy, Kans., in April 1897. The hideous humanoids stole his heifer, hauled it aboard their "airship," and, "jabbering together," sailed away. "I don't want anything more to do with them," concluded Hamilton's affidavit. Most people...
...President's head, a very direct and specific depiction of the most brutal moment of the tragedy, when Kennedy was struck by the bullet. The lines near the 'pro file,' " he said, "represent either the trajectory of the bullets or spatters of blood. It is hideous in one sense," he concluded, "because it doesn't try to walk around the issues." Which was more than Maytham could claim when he later recanted, pleading ignorance of the actual title...
...Ireland's Malahide Castle, at intervals between 1925 and 1941, Boswell's descendants discovered a vast mass of manuscript stacked in a hideous old ebony cabinet, in the moldy loft of a barn, in an ancient croquet box. It was the literary find of the century: thousands of Boswell's letters, notes for the Life and drafts of it in his own hand, above all the manuscript of his masterpiece-the voluminous journal he kept for 35 years. Published in seven installments between 1950 and 1963, the Journal (which sold 2,500,000 copies) dramatically transformed...