Chester returned to New York, where he became one of the foremost critics of the ’60s, writing witty, scabrous reviews for The New York Review of Books, Partisan Review, and Commentary

wolfed up by the scabrous dark that presses so very ravenously up against her bluish ankles

This was a scabrous half-truth. Russ himself had originally proposed the name.

in his scabrous takedown of John Updike's Toward the End of Time

the Institute for Social Research as it evolved in the 1930s. It was Brechtian in its inverse relationship between scabrous critique and changing that which it critiqued

its idea of scabrous determination

which they were billed to do in the scabrous hate-sheet tacked to the door

who always confessed he never could see the point of any 'scabrous anecdote'

sneak such scabrousness in through the back door

while Charles Manson, Esq., pats the bongoes and recites scabrous prose poems party

Nixon's scabrous attorney general