Word: viciousness
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...last eight years. Eliot's account of those last years is a telling description of personal disintegration. The era had disintegrated first and it was Ochs' shell that people saw during those last years. And so the most chilling story in the book, the story of "John Train," a vicious, violent persona that Ochs crawled into in 1975, is tragic, but it is only a personal tragedy. The larger tragedy came when Ochs sought but could never find the notes that could reach the people. His last synthesis before he descended into alcoholism and depression was to try to recreate...
...laxwomen from embarrassment. But the rest of the Harvard defense never had a chance. Every call seemed to go against the Crimson, who had no choice but to curb their normally aggressive play or pay the price. The New Hampshire team seized the opportunity to get in some vicious stick-checking, catching both Sailer and Stef Baum in the head...
...denounced Chinese who indulged in Western-style dancing or who "sold state secrets" to foreigners. As if on cue, city and provincial bosses quickly went on the attack against all political protest. China's press denounced "ultra-democracy," as well as the "black sheep" who helped "to launch vicious attacks on party and state leaders." The Peking Daily dismissed human rights as a mere "bourgeois slogan...
Fish, the only living member of the Walter Camp All-Time All-American football team and eight-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives, reminisced about a vicious Yale-Harvard basketball game in 1908 before awarding the first Hamilton Fish Most Improved Player Award to Donald Fleming, a freshman who averaged almost 12 points per outing...
...William Loeb's Manchester Union Leader skews New Hampshire's politics, and even the state's closely watched presidential primary. In Michigan, John P. McGoff fired two editors in his small right-wing chain when they refused to give front-page play to a couple of vicious anti-Carter stories. Last week the government of South Africa admitted that it made available $11.5 million from a secret slush fund in 1974 during McGoff s unsuccessful attempt to buy the Washington Star. Presumably, South Africa hoped to turn the Star into a public relations organ for that country...