VLVL2: More OEDna Mash

Burns, Erik Erik.Burns at dowjones.com
Wed Jul 16 06:34:11 CDT 2003


Foax:

Following up on that OED post ... it appears there's just *one* cite (among
Pynchon's 200+ entries)

it is:

    political incorrectness orig U.S., language, behaviour, etc., which is
not politically correct; failure or reluctance to conform to politically
correct views (see *POLITICALLY adv. 3 b).

  1989 N.Y. Times 16 July VII. 1/1 By 1969, what some liberal authors saw as
the new *political incorrectness of the Apollo program left them feeling
guilty or ambivalent toward it. 1990 T. PYNCHON Vineland 83 Just for its
political incorrectness alone, Frenesi had at first reacted to Sasha's
theory with anger. 1994 Loaded Sept. 40/1 Local councils have monitored his
act to judge whether it contains material which might be offensive under
their Equal Opportunities policies... Manning, the living embodiment of
political incorrectness, remains somewhat bemused by all the fuss.


inneresting. (_Mason & Dixon_ gets a bunch in the New Edition)

etb



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