Word: pigging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EMILE DE ANTONIO'S documentary "In the Year of the Pig" has done something it's getting harder and harder to do--it has made the Vietnamese War real. This is no easy task now that 1965-style moral indignation has waned and the War has become an idea. The film succeeds brilliantly because its director has exploited the possibilities of the documentary form and seen its relevance to our perception of the war as part of our lives...
...ground. Mostly the show just proved that people who appear on such programs have an intelligence gap. Finally, ABC is adding a prime-time version of Let's Make a Deal, the afternoon show in which hysterical housewives bid against each other for what may be a pig (or a silk purse) in a poke. This year's second season has already played the game, and lost...
...Ph.D. about his chosen field which he has not heard already. Though many students are bright, he concedes, they are all inarticulate. They have "no responsibility to words or logic." Their writing is garble, their medium is sabotage, their ethos is rudeness, and their morals are those of a pig sty. They expect honesty from adults, but not from themselves. He points to the prevalence of cheating...
...that! "ROT-C" is somewhat difficult to generalize and simplify, just like everything else in life! On that score, see "To Live With Complexity" by Dean Franklin L. Ford, Harvard Today, Autumn 1968. But then, who really cares about facts or intellectual honesty. Lets get rid of the fascist-pig-warmongers, let George worry about National Security, and give attention to something serious, like parietals...
...meal. Dom is chicken, after the Dominique, a particular breed. Broadie is a cow or a steak. Gano is the name of a very hard kind of apple they used to grow in the valley and, by extension, Boontling for all apples. Bacon is bowrp (a contraction of boar pig), eggs are easters, as in "If I don't shy to the sluggin' region [sleeping place] soon, I may as well set me a jeffer and gorm bowrp and casters...