Word: bastardly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Should the Trustees and the Council refuse any concessions to these truly reasonable demands, students could reject any and all self-government rather than put up with an unwanted bastard. It is a truism that the College administration, the Trustees, and the students would be the poorer...
...hesitates to label such an unpromising campaign "opportunistic." Kennedy is, after all, risking everything in a year when he might risk next to nothing. He has thrown in with the Democratic Party's bastard wing, not even sure they will accept him. If he has miscalculated, it is not so much out of opportunism as out of conviction: the conviction that Robert Kennedy has what it takes in this banner year of American political history. Given the alternatives, Kennedy's conviction is a tempting...
...trouble in the Y.M.C.A., and hadn't spoken to anyone since." Arrested himself during the opening hours of the Pentagon siege, Mailer winds up in the same paddy wagon with a tall, ferocious American Nazi, and stares him down in the inevitable Mailerian confrontation of wills. "You Jew bastard," shouts the Nazi. "Kraut pig!" replies Norman, only a bit embarrassed. But for Mailer's reportorial eye and his caustic comments on an America overwhelmed by institutionalism, his version of the Pentagon march might have become far too personal. As it is, he reveals the diversity and ethical intricacy...
...setting educational policy and rebelling against paternalistic rules of conduct; they are also freely voicing disagreement with the policies of their national government. The mood of militancy has even afflicted Britain's Cambridge University, where King's College undergraduates-calling Prime Minister Harold Wilson a "fascist bastard" for supporting U.S. policy in Viet Nam-have asked for Marxist-oriented "alternative lectures" and called the in loco parentis role of their tutors "ridiculous." Asks one King's man: "How can a middle-aged man know about young people-and why shouldn't one be allowed to sleep...
...Truman: That little bastard imagines himself a patriot. It was really his street-fighting instinct that got him to react to the invasion of South Korea...