Harrison Bergeron Vocabulary

All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.

“I’d think it would be real interesting, hearing all the different sounds,” said Hazel, a little envious.

It wasn’t clear at first as to what the bulletin was about, since the announcer, like all announcers, had a serious speech impediment.

Her voice was a warm, luminous, timeless melody.

The picture showed the full length of Harrison against a background calibrated in feet and inches.

He had outgrown hindrances faster than the H–G men could think them up.

There was the shriek of a door being torn from its hinges.

Screams and barking cries of consternation came from the television set.

Ballerinas, technicians, musicians, and announcers cowered on their knees before him, expecting to die.

I really want to like Bill Maher. He calls out Islamic fundamentalist regimes for their brutal oppression of women, and that is absolutely righteous. Salon (Oct 10, 2015)

They reeled, whirled, swiveled, flounced, capered, gamboled, and spun. They leaped like deer on the moon.