Word: un
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Garry Trudeau's eating habits are not the signs of an eccentric cartoonist, but merely the eating habits of an un married college student. In my own apartment here at Cal State Fullerton you will find 13 empty bottles of Dr Pepper, six Swanson TV dinners, and in the freezer an open can of orange juice concentrate with a spoon...
...hatchets) of the scrutinizers of the Fourth Estate have been waiting for them at every turn. The press's track record with respect to Carter in the last month gives a fair indication of what to expect, both good and bad, from the journalists who gave us a very un-scrutinized Richard Nixon four years ago--they have not forgotten that egregious lapse...
When victimized by the McCarthy era witch hunts, he stood tall before the House Un-American Activities Committee, defied their attempt to limit his constitutional rights, and mocked their pretensions to patriotism. To silence him, the government revoked his passport, branded him a subversive, and in effect forced him to leave the U.S. in order to gain employment. In short, the workings of American democracy were such that an internationally known artist and political activist was turned into an unperson in his own country...
...location in nearby Godfrey, Eichen and his fellow film makers-un-supervised by a teacher because the filming took place during vacation-taped a half-inch-thick piece of soft pine to Nilsson's chest. Then, as the 8-mm. camera whirred, a"pusher" knocked Nilsson to the ground with faked blows of a club...
...that comprise a good part of their everyday vocabulary: such non-bons mots as bestseller, sexy, blue jeans, bowling, gadget, checkup, checkout, jumbo jet, baby sitter, nonstop, dead heat (pronounced did it), hot dog, hijack, racket, zoom, jukebox, call girl, marketing, merchandising and leasing. Evidemment, the government will need un computer -preferred usage: ordinateur-to track down the offending business man, a designation that is not precisely conveyed by its closest French equivalent, l'homme d'affaires, and even less by la femme d'affaires, a term that could apply to a woman who does not know...