Word: cloak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...familiar one. In A Thousand Clowns, Scenarist Herb Gardner created Murray Burns, the same avian specimen ostentatiously hiding his self-pity in a cloak of jokes. Georgie is a blurred replica of Murray, surrounded by the same narcissistic suffering and arriving at the same lame insights: "Time is not a thief; he's an embezzler, juggling the books at night so you don't notice anything's missing...
...omertd ? the oath of silence ? in a ceremony of blood and fire, the old-line Mafiosi cultivated their anonymity as the first line of defense against ar rest and prosecution. Despite the publicity caused by Prohibition gangland wars, the Mafia was still able to maintain a cloak of secrecy around its activities. Behind this shield, Mafia leaders gained control of gambling and narcotics, some labor unions and legitimate businesses. When the first systematic crackdowns by law-enforcement agencies started ten years ago, the bosses deemed their facelessness more important than ever...
Like the Austrian minister who became his greatest political hero, Kissinger has used his position in government as a protective cloak to conceal his larger ambitions and purposes. Far from being the detached, objective arbiter of Presidential decision-making, he has become a crucial molder and supporter of Nixon's foreign policy. Instead of merely holding the bureaucracy at comfortable arm's length, he has entangled it in a web of useless projects and studies, cleverly shifting an important locus of advisory power from the Cabinet departments to his own office. And as confidential advisor to the President, he never...
...disagree with what you say. but I will defend with my life your right to say it." In came the revolutionary ideals of Marceusse (?) "Free speech for those who believe in the revolution." If the FBI were to inquire after the facts, academic freedom would be invoked as a cloak to deny the public knowledge of what revolution Harvard students support...
...EXCUSE ME," the polite young man or woman in the long black cloak will say, "would you like to make a donation to our Church to help us with our programs for young people?" If you refuse, he or she will smile and turn away to someone else passing on the street. If you stop, and if you give some change and ask about it, you'll begin to hear about the Process, the Church that these evangelical fundraisers on various sidewalk stations in busy parts of Boston and Cambridge belong to. You'll be offered...