Word: epithets
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...stopped lowering my head at the epithet "cultist" as soon as I realized that the quasi-religious connotation of the term was somewhat justified for those of us who loved movies beyond reason...
Tony Lukas covered the Chicago trial for five months for the New York Times and has now turned out what he calls "A short little book" (107 pages), The Barnyard Epithet and Other Obscenities: Notes on the Chicago Conspiracy Trial. It's a book of anecdotes, incidents, and bits and pieces from the unofficial trial transcript and purports to be nothing more than "a modest contribution to the growing lore on this extraordinary event...
...York Times reporters are the closest thing America has to professional spectators, and one suspects sometimes that the paper's guidelines for news dictates that the more controversial the subject, the more dispassionate, detached, and altogether impeccably facile the coverage must be. The Barnyard Epithet displays traces of this invisible guideline when, for instance, Lukas says Rennie Davis "reminded me of a Kansas 4-H leader but who I knew was a shrewd, resourceful radical...
...present vagueness of each, in current usage they do signify two quite different positions. Liberals think they have saved this and other societies from radicals, a claim that is neither wholly provable nor wholly refutable. The typical radical regards the liberal as a fink-a delicate and obsolete epithet that has been replaced in the radical vocabulary by a popular twelve-letter word. Today's liberal thinks today's society is worth mending and uses constitutional means to that end. Today's radical thinks today's society should be junked and cares little about what means...
...that the battle of the sexes was fought in gentle, rolling Thurber country. Now the din is in earnest, echoing from the streets where pickets gather, the bars where women once were barred, and even connubial beds, where ideology can intrude at the unconscious drop of a male chauvinist epithet. This week, marking the 50th anniversary of the proclamation of the 19th Amendment granting women the vote, the diffuse, divided, but grimly determined Women's Liberation movement plans a nationwide protest day against the second sex's once and present oppression...