Word: browbeatings
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...formed by leading members of the Southern communities to protect their women and homes from Reconstruction carpetbagger thugs and freed Negroes. Many Negroes returned to their homes or sought work with others, but there were many who, spurred on by crooked politicians and lawmen, raped, robbed and generally browbeat decent citizens. I am a descendant of one of the original Klansmen and have heard of these things all my life. The decent, law-abiding Negro was never set upon-only the criminal element. I am not saying that the Klan has never made a mistake. There are mistakes made...
...Miss Arendt's analysis of Eichmann's character is confirmed by William L. Hull's The Struggle for a Soul, in which the author, a Protestant missionary in Israel, describes his attempts to convert Eichmann before his execution. After condemning Hull for being "puerile" and for attempting "to browbeat Eichmann into a 'repeat after me' attitude," Lee accepts his claim that Eichmann never recognized his own guilt. He was therefore, Lee says, "no willful Edmund, Richard Ill, Iago, or Flamineo, for the willful ones find out." Men like Eichmann, on the other hand, "have engaged in no quest, no pact...
...Stickney Township, on the outskirts of Chicago, kids who never heard of Dentist Raper (see above) may soon be using his arguments to browbeat their parents into serving backward meals. For Stickney eighth-graders have just had a colorful demonstration of what sugar left in the mouth may mean...
...whisky tenor is unmistakable. To the late H. L. Mencken, iconoclastic polemic was the choicer part of criticism. His aim was to high-browbeat "the populace" with a club: to fight American Gothic, Mencken became the great American Goth. All of this, and more, is made pleasantly apparent in two excellent Mencken samplers, in which he plays at two of his favorite roles-music critic and man-of-letters...
...invariably tries to browbeat the press, claims he once persuaded the New York World-Telegram to delete an unfavorable section from a review. Critics, with the rarest of exceptions, he denounces as uncreative "hacks." Merrick particularly professes to despise Walter Kerr of the New York Herald Tribune (Kerr reacts, says Merrick, only when his wife Jean nudges him), John McCarten of The New Yorker (whom he banned from his last opening), Louis Kronenberger of TIME, and the New York Times's Howard Taubman-who, says Merrick grinning at his own maliciousness, "needs vocational guidance." Two weeks ago, he tried...