Word: begging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reed's targets have been around at bargain prices for some time, but his laughs are not cheap. The outrageousness of his comic vision and the sinister coils of his prose beg comparison with William Burroughs. Survivors of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance may also be reminded of the orneriness of George Schuyler, the Black Mencken. Mumbo Jumbo is set-or rather cut loose-in the Harlem of the '20s, although Reed's ideas of renaissance slide all the way back to ancient Egypt. Like a street-hustling Norman O. Brown, Reed jives Western civilization into its mythological...
Next, McGovern talked to Humphrey. "George put it to me straight," Humphrey later told TIME'S Hays Gorey. "He didn't beg me or implore me, but he asked me. I told him just as plainly that I could not and should not." McGovern went to sleep for the night...
...called white flag budget substitutes a philosophy of give-away now, beg later, for a philosophy of strength and willingness to 'negotiate' as followed by the Nixon administration," Laird said at a news conference in which he released two documents containing the Pentagon's analysis of McGovern's proposals...
...Artisans of Florence and Rome, I beg you, do not restore the Pieta...
These people forget they spend money to sell themselves to us. To beg to represent us. But when they get a position, they forget they represent people here and that we're the ones that count...