...Olivia Valdes © 2011 Olivia Valdes 2011 Olivia Valdes Treatise on Euphemism, Reconsidered In fourth grade the heck vs. earth debate means something. Heck, this otherworldly wildcard, spiraling out of the mouth and into the bread basket of the Evangelist...

... and the first word was euphemism. one day, we rode our bikes to oakwood beach before the phragmites took over. it felt good to wade in the harbor water, splash seaweed up to our knees, roping us together in a relay race before I learned to swim. she never roughed me under or took me beyond the sandbar where my...

..., Binding Violence: Literary Visions of Political Origins [2010]) In his 1963 seminal essay, “Violence and the Western Political Tra- dition,” the United States’ preeminent political theorist, Sheldon S. Wolin, eloquently wrote about the euphemisms that great political thinkers of the past...

... the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, most people understood that the name “cultural studies” was a euphemism. As a student who attended the Birmingham School (as it came to be known) told me, that phrase was the best anyone could do to replace “socialist-feminist studies,” which...

... (if, say, he used the word as a euphemism for his nose), then that special significance would not be a fact about the poem; the public meanings of the word, the fact that for all speakers of Early Modern English vegetable could mean either "growing" or "a kind of plant," are features...

... studies, in part because the name itself was in some way a euphemism for the real slogan, which I remain committed to, the larger tradition of historical materialism. Cohen Earlier, you were talking about how crucial the people you met who came from the Old Left...

... Wegner 79 Figure 2 to that institution as it exists in our moment, with its emphasis on quantifiable — ​or, to use the reigning euphemism, “assessableout- comes (Emery 2008). Finally, the discourse of analysis appears as another kind of negation, or more...