Word: vitriolic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many of the letters are expectedly heavy with vitriol. Some show an irrational readiness to blame the messenger for the message and hold the news media responsible for the social ills that they report. A significant number reflect a disturbing increase in overt antiSemitism. NBC said last week that it had received more than 500 anti-Jewish letters; the New York Times reported a dozen such letters, more than it has received on any issue since the Arab-Israeli...
Protests and Payoffs. With punchy headlines and a tabloid format, the paper unflaggingly alerts its 10,000 readers to each week's environmental toll -an oil spill off Casco Bay, a fish kill at Mystery Lake, a historic barn razed at the University of Maine. Much vitriol is aimed at the paper industry, a major source of water pollution in the state. The Times recently flayed a new wave of fly-by-night operators who reopen abandoned paper mills for "short-term profit and long-term pollution...
Though Pearson thrived on the vitriol in his professional life, in his private life he was a pleasant and gentle man, a Quaker with a sense of humor. For his epitaph, he said he would prefer not a remembrance of his fame as an enemy of rascals but of his less well-known role as the organizer of the Friendship Train, which sent $40 million worth of food to postwar France and Italy in 1947, and as the rebuilder of a Tennessee high school that was bombed...
...AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? spits vitriol for those who enjoy someone else's marital problems in Middletown, Va., Aug. 5-17; Olney, Md., Aug. 5-24 and Garden City...
Narcissism and Vulnerability. Luke's play skillfully brackets Rolfe as Pope with two scenes in which Rolfe is shown in ignominious penury - freezing and starving in his London room, bullied by his landlady, harassed by bailiffs, spitting vitriol at the obdurate world. Rolfe's real life was a dramatic contrast to the Vatican splendor of his Cinderella dream, and McCowen makes the most of it. Head cocked and shoulders hunched into a grubby purple scarf, he alternately whines with self-pity and whirls arrogantly on his persecutors, slashingly vituperative...