Word: counterattack
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Self-Serving Motives. Friedlander has already been subject to counterattack. In a recent issue of America, Jesuit Historian Robert Graham says that he ignored documents that do not support his case. Other Catholic experts charge that Friedlander has failed to consider the self-serving motives of the German diplomats whose reports are so crucial to his thesis. Von Bergen, for example, was an ambitious professional diplomat who hoped for promotion in Germany's foreign service. Von Weizsacker was an anti-Nazi Protestant who apparently wished to prevent Hitler from taking any action that would harm Pius personally...
...time that Nader wrote his book, more than 100 lawsuits had been filed against Chevrolet for Corvair's alleged deficiencies (to date, G.M. has won two such suits, lost one, and settled one out of court). Angered by Nader's charges, some General Motors executives decided to counterattack. The corporation retained a Washington law firm, which in turn paid out $6,700 to hire Vincent Gillen, a onetime FBI agent turned private detective with headquarters in Manhattan. Gillen sent his agents a frank letter about what they were supposed to try to accomplish. "Our job," he wrote...
...Hayes' counterattack was met with loud clapping and shouts...
Homosexual ethics and esthetics are staging a vengeful, derisive counterattack on what deviates call the "straight" world. This is evident in "pop," which insists on reducing art to the trivial, and in the "camp" movement, which pretends that the ugly and banal are fun. It is evident among writers, who used to disguise homosexual stories in heterosexual dress but now delight in explicit descriptions of male intercourse and orgiastic nightmares. It is evident in the theater, with many a play dedicated to the degradation of women and the derision of normal sex. The most sophisticated theatrical joke is now built...
...Johnson-still a lieutenant colonel after eight years-was assigned to the Pusan perimeter, where he moved into position as a reserve unit. The next day the Communists overran the front lines. Johnson's battalion fought like veterans-and held. Later, near Tabu-dong, Johnson himself led a counterattack to regain a key sector, earning the nation's second highest award, the Distinguished Service Cross, for "extraordinary heroism in action." As Lieut. Colonel George Allen of Fairfax, Va., then one of his platoon leaders, recalls the battle: "The world was coming apart. Our company commander had been killed...