Word: opprobrium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Punishment. "I herewith state publicly that I intend to live down, if possible, the opprobrium of corruption. It is heartening that people deal with me in a spirit of understanding and kindness; it must be with some conscious effort...
Courbet did see the world with a childlike directness and delight. He painted it, according to one contemporary, "as simply as an apple tree bears apples." He didn't much like being called a realist-it was a term of opprobrium in some circles in those days, too-but he used to pound on the table and insist that painting was a physical language having nothing to do with history, romance or religion. "Show me an angel," he shouted, "and I will paint...
...vitality, country -the things writers used to spit at." Besides this, she explains, "I try to write in language people can understand. Not primer stuff, but simple language and thoughts everybody has." One of Author Ferber's prime annoyances (it has been bothering her for years) is the opprobrium which she feels is attached in the U.S. to the term "best-seller." "What's wrong with writing a book that lots of people buy?" she demands. "My God, there's no point in writing if you don't sell your stuff." Of current writers, she most...
...problem for many a U.S. tycoon is how to stop making money, what with taxes, the opprobrium attached to high earnings in wartime, and all. But when a tycoon has used extraordinary ingenuity for many years in devising ways & means to make the money roll in, he cannot easily or suddenly disengage himself from the golden flow...