Word: characer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chief and most unbelievable charac ter in this self-proclaimed "novel of the new American revolution" is Arkansas Representative Timotheus Denney, who is cast as the legislative wizard and bourbon-breathing Grand Dragon of all the sheetless Klansmen on Capitol Hill. This Ozark Ozymandias wants the Government to build him a $2 billion Denney Dam back in Yell County, Ark. But he faces an ironic choice: the dam will be voted out of committee only if Denney pledges support for a civil rights bill. Never, he yells, and threatens to touch off race war if the dam doesn...
Socialist Humanitarianism. The summing up was the predictable set propaganda piece-one that the London Times dismissed as "crude stuff" and a "charac teristic mistake by the Russians." To Prosecutor Rudenko, the trial "unmasked completely the criminal aggressive actions of the U.S. ruling quarters" and the "savage, man-hating ethics of Allen Dulles & Co., placing the dollar, this yellow devil, higher than human life." By way of defense, Powers' court-appointed attorney. Mikhail Grinev, who makes a good living losing cases he is expected to. tried to outdo the prosecution in attacking the U.S. Powers, he said, "should...