Word: nastiest
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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Because Mr. Angus Wilson is, among many other things, an acute chronicler of the Welfare State, he has incurred the unfortunate label of "traditional novelist"--the nastiest epithet in the current critical lexicon. Mr. Wilson's novels are by this means arbitrarily damned to comparisons with the matronly, jovial and encyclopaedic shades (respectively) of George Eliot, Charles Dickens and John Galsworthy...
...department-store lunch counters, downtown theaters, golf courses, libraries, and airport. Although located in a border state, Nashville is in many senses a Deep South city. It is not necessarily a placid place. Says a race-relations worker who has long traveled throughout the South: "Nashville can be the nastiest town I've ever seen." But Nashville (pop. 170,000) has unexpectedly taken its place in the vanguard of Southern integration...