Word: assail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Black Anger. But the war complicated things as well?not least because Israel was victorious beyond all expectation. Some Jews, especially younger ones, had trouble adjusting to the image of the Jew as conqueror. Those in the New Left found it possible to assail Israel as the new upperdog and to defend the underdog Palestinian guerrillas with Jerry Rubin's phrase, "Right on, Al Fatah!" The chorus was joined by black militants, who now hurled epithets at the very Jews who had first marched with them in civil rights protests. The blacks' anger, overtly against Israel, at least partly reflected...
Welfare runs busing a close second as a cause of complaint among Floridians. They are not opposed to helping those who really need it, but from Fort Pickens near Pensacola to Sloppy Joe's in Key West, they assail those who they feel do not deserve it. "I see people going down to the welfare office with new automobiles and here's me driving a six-year-old car," protests Seminole County Deputy Sheriff William Chandler. "To me," adds St. Petersburg Motel Operator Robert Van Auker, "welfare is the most stinking thing there...
...danger is that an honest search for the facts may be derailed by ideological passion. The left has seized the occasion to romanticize the "political" prisoners who led their fellow inmates to the slaughter; the right has taken the opportunity to assail the left. Spiro Agnew, for instance, complained that the "radical liberals" and the news media have turned the event into "yet another cause celebre in the pantheon of radical revolutionary propaganda." If this becomes the tone of the investigation, there will be no lesson learned from Attica...
While civil libertarians assail the invasion of privacy by federal agents and local cops who tap private telephones, it seems the snooping business is not a government monopoly. In this electronic age, the feds, too, can be kept under surveillance. Lawyers for Joseph A. Colombo Sr. proved that with rare candor last week. They called Justice Department officials in New York City to arrange for the surrender of the reputed underworld chieftain (TIME, April 5) on a charge of running a $5-million-a-year gambling operation-before the warrant for his arrest had been issued. How did Colombo...
...antiquated fundamental values of human life, I resented Gerald Clarke's distasteful parody [March 1] on a rare, decent book. Must all the chaste ideals left for us to hold sacred be indignantly slandered in this manner when there exists such a preponderance of depravity yet to assail...