Word: viciousness
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...College was determined to provide an audience for this spokenwoman for a vicious and corrupt minor dictatorship, it should at least have given her the reception--polite, but clearly disapproving--she deserves. Linda Greenberg...
Playing with Magic. In the first quarter, a vicious, blind-side tackle sent Staubach to the bench with a stretched nerve in his left shoulder. Five minutes later, as if nothing had happened, he was ramming through the center of the S.M.U. line for a touchdown. Southern Methodist's speedy backs scored twice before the half. But Staubach kept the Middies ahead-rolling out to his right to set up a touchdown, then rolling out to his left for the two-point conversion. By the half, 31 points were on the scoreboard: Navy 18, S.M.U...
Within an hour the vicious villain has slandered the hero's good name, persuaded the gullible Allworthy to disown him, extracted from Squire Western a promise that Sophie will become his bride instead of Tom's. Appalled, Sophie flees to London, whither Tom is also bound. Western and Blifil set out in hot pursuit, and the next hour is crammed with all manner of violent and absurd adventures: desperate duels, rascally robberies, satanic stranglings, egregious escapes, and any number of precipitate plunges into a fate nobody seems to consider worse than death. At the climax poor dear Sophie...
According to the Legend, he runs a paper route, helps elderly ladies fight New York's vicious traffic, periodically has to take time out from assisting roommates with tough assignments to remove "We Love You Archie" signs from the hall-ways, does youth work in a local park, addresses adults as "sir," is an active leader in his fraternity, and runs a locker room radio show after every game...
...James has been misunderstood in the past, to a degree; parts of his work have been overrated though not, as Geismar claims, by F.O. Matthiessen or Edmund Wilson). The American Scene is a good example of such misunderstanding and exaggeration. But Geismar only writes, this was James's most vicious book at its core, as the 'rootless returner' shall we say?--the orphan-exile from early childhood, the journalist-news paperman-artist, now kicked out, in his own fantasles, from the European castle of culture, still clung to all its familiar furnishing while everywhere. In the American scene revisted...