Word: baiter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Committee has gone to the courts before, but chiefly to prosecute contempt citations. Now it must appear as the defendant, on trial for the sins of a dead Red-baiter. And conservatives have never held out much hope for the Warren Court, where the case might...
...more often than not what that disguise involves is a rhetorical and usually very funny attack on institutions outside of East Cambridge which serves to draw attention away from what is actually happening in Vellucci's neighborhood and strengthens his own position as baiter of a common enemy. The very rich and the very powerful represent the most visible threats to the community, and, while Vellucci's attacks on the University always strike a responsive chord, they also increase the paranoia that is beginning to spread through the neighborhood. While Vellucci may refused in just to eat or drink...
...goes. The old bourgeois-baiter composes a contented ode to his new kitchen and a hymn to hot baths, a worried incantation against insomnia and some earnest lines on the higher significance of regularity. It is both absurd and touching to see the aging lion mew so meekly. He seems humbly grateful for the small favors of existence, humbly aware of the failures of his private life. In a poem about bedrooms he writes sadly: about blended flesh...
While Lady Bird vacationed in a Virgin Islands retreat, the President took Luci with him to a good old-fashioned Democratic fund-raising dinner in Mayor Dick Daley's Chicago. It was the sort of occasion that would ordinarily bring out the rousing Republican baiter in L.B.J. But not this time. Instead, he used it to issue an appeal to the Russian people for friendship, and to declare himself firmly against appeasement. Recalling the lesson of Munich, he said: "In the 1930s we made our fate not by what we did but by what we failed...
...foreign investors who might have helped stayed away-which was hardly surprising, with student riots in Guatemala City and grumbling peasants in the countryside. Then, in mid-1963, Juan José Areválo, 60, Guatemala's Communist-coddling onetime President (1945-51) and Yanqui baiter (The Shark and the Sardines), was allowed to return to stand for election. That was the final straw...