Word: baldwinism
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...Abwehr, Germany's secret service, had placed agents in key positions in London, it could not have chosen better than, to name just two, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and his successor, Neville Chamberlain. Indeed, Nazi moles would not have dared to undermine Britain's defenses, diplomatic as well as military, as blatantly as did those two ambitious bumblers. After Hitler marched into the Rhineland in 1936, Baldwin rejected pressure to appoint Churchill as Minister of Defense with the compelling logic that "if I pick Winston, Hitler will be cross." In 1938, after meeting the Fuhrer, the deluded Chamberlain could...
...scares me a little about defense." Carl Bauer, a 72-year-old retiree, was scathingly critical of Bush's performance in the first debate, but will probably vote for him anyway, in part because "I don't like it that Dukakis is against the death penalty." In contrast, Phyllis Baldwin, a telephone operator, complained that "Mr. Bush said that Mr. Dukakis is soft on crime, and I didn't find out until after the debate that crime in Massachusetts was down 13%." That figure was featured in a Dukakis ad in Toledo...
...Baldwin...
This collection, scrupulously annotated by her friend Sally Fitzgerald, includes the two novels, all 28 short stories, essays and more than 250 indiscreet and entertaining letters. In them a previously hidden critic emerges: "Mr. Truman Capote makes me plumb sick, as does Mr. Tenn. Williams . . . if ((James)) Baldwin were white nobody would stand him a minute." She has nothing but awe for William Faulkner, the only other Southern novelist to be published in the magisterial Library of America series. She belongs in his company...
...long Angela has lived in a domestic cage with rococo bars and gilded walls. Her husband Frank "the Cucumber" De Marco (Alec Baldwin) boards the morning Long Island commuter train, but he does his work in transit, putting a bullet in the brain of a rival Mafia goon in the seat ahead of him. Angela has a cute son, but the kid runs a three-card monte game in the backyard. Her home must have been decorated by Wheel of Fortune: all the furniture and appliances are studiously ugly, and half of them are still in crates. As she tells...