Word: cooperized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BEHIND THE GOLDEN CURTAIN, by Susan Cooper (244 pages; Scribner; $4.95), contends that American affluence and self-sufficiency have created a Golden Curtain that splits the West in half just as surely as the Iron Curtain divides it from the East. This, the author contends, permits Americans to go their merry, uncomprehending way while the rest of the world lives in ignorance of what the U.S. is really like. Americans, she says, suffer from an excess of earnestness, are deplorably fundamentalistic in religion, too insular, too prone to look for Reds under beds, and are basically anti-intellectual. Furthermore, Goldwaterism...
Even in such undistinguished company as George Chuvalo, Brian London and Henry Cooper, Karl Mildenberger hardly seemed a name to be reckoned with. Cassius Clay, for instance, couldn't even remember it. "Who is your next challenger?" somebody asked the heavyweight champion, and Clay replied: "I don't know, but he's the champion of Germany...
...have been sentencing people for 27 years," Judge Irving Ben Cooper told the defendant in Manhattan's Federal Court, "and it has been a long time since I have come upon a case that was so revolting as your case. I think you are so steeped in filth that as I read the report I cringed, and my flesh crept as I read the depth of iniquity to which you have allowed yourself to sink...
What prompted that condemnation from Judge Cooper-together with a five-year prison sentence and a $10,000 fine-was Defendant John Fellebaum's part in a nationwide extortion ring that has turned blackmail of homosexuals into a lucrative, cruelly efficient business. Though the full dimensions of the ring are still not known, 15 members have been arrested over the past year, and eight of them, including Fellebaum, have pleaded guilty. The ring's victims -many of them prominent in entertainment, business, education and Government-have numbered perhaps 1,000, and their total payoff is estimated...
...managed to give flesh and blood to the characters of Robert Louis Stevenson and James Fenimore Cooper without betraying the imaginations of generations of children. Before his death in 1945, Wyeth had turned out nearly 7,000 illustrations, murals and paintings, including 16 editions of Scribner's Illustrated Classics...