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Word: generically (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1970
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Usage:

...smile solemnly see direction A / click / great country endeavor great leadership / inspirational fist follow fig. 2 / click / . . . " Such a poem, lacking content and a cohesive style, is hardly a poem at all. It depends for its survival, not on intrinsic merit of interest, but on currency. It makes no generic statement, just a personal snipe, and does this in a thoroughly forgettable form...

Author: By Michael Ryan, | Title: Books The Nixon Poems | 11/2/1970 | See Source »

...reception encouraged him to co-author The Real Majority. We found ecdysiast, first minted by H.L. Mencken, a delightful way of describing Gypsy Rose Lee, and helped make it a part of the language. The title beatnik, originally bestowed on Bohemian writers in San Francisco, became a generic term in the pages of TIME. McCarthyism and Castroism first came into general use in the magazine, as did Kremlinologist, Sinologist and urbanologist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Oct. 19, 1970 | 10/19/1970 | See Source »

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