Word: ax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mills calls the justification for the military establishment the "military metaphysic", and the justification for the preservation of this establishment--"crackpot realism." He has the ax out for the "Power Elite" he described in his earlier book of that name--the intertwined combination of the military, the businessmen, and the politicians. Military and businessmen partake of the "military metaphysic" for reasons of self-interest, claims Mills, for the politicians, it "provides a cover under which they can abdicate the perils of innovative leadership; it provides a cover for their use of military bureaucrats--the only large pool of professional civil...
...Treatment. To hide their ignorance (and save their skins), court doctors went to lengths that gave royalty sparse chance of survival. During the last hours of Prince Henry, eldest son of England's James I, the doctors were terrified of hurrying the process and thereby literally getting the ax. Not daring to bleed the youth as much as they wanted to, they finally decided to try treating him "as if he was some meane person." They bisected a rooster, attached the reeking halves to Henry's royal soles, which at least allowed him to keep most...
Pitchfork & Ax. A well-read frontier buff, Gruber admits that "in television scripts we distort things. Like in Wells Fargo we have Dale Robertson inventing the swivel holster when it was really invented by John Wesley Hardin. Or we have Belle Starr as a beautiful woman, when she really was a terrible looking...
Other minor errors also rile Gruber. "You don't shoot a man in the throat, and you don't kill him with a pitchfork or an ax," he argues. "We had a script here where the hero was killed with a pitchfork and I changed it to shooting. That very same week Jim [Gunsmoke] Arness killed two men with a pitchfork. That's not an honest western...
...Girls in 509 (by Howard Teichmann) are an aristocratic, violently Republican battle-ax and her niece (Peggy Wood and Imogene Coca), who, for the 25 years since F.D.R. went to the White House, have been hiding in a decaying family hotel under assumed names, indulging in weird hobbies, and barricading themselves against possible intruders. When at last someone manages to intrude, the girls turn out to be much less Republicans than know-nothings; they swear by the Literary Digest, are amazed that the banks have reopened and that there is a different Man in the White House. And they...