Ascent of the A-Word: Assholism, the First Sixty Years by Geoffrey Nunberg

Ascent of the A-Word: Assholism, the First Sixty Years



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Publisher: PublicAffairs
Page: 272
ISBN: 9781610391757


It first surfaced in the gripes of GIs during World War II and was captured early on by the typewriter of a young Norman Mailer. Within a generation it had become a basic notion of our everyday moral life, replacing older reproaches like lout and heel with a single inclusive category––a staple of country outlaw songs, Neil Simon plays, and Woody Allen movies. Feminists made it their stock rebuke for male insensitivity, the est movement used it for those who didn’t “get it,” and Dirty Harry applied it evenhandedly to both his officious superiors and the punks he manhandled. The asshole has become a focus of collective fascination for us, just as ...

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