Word: czardom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other side to czardom is ready made for him. That task is to be a highly visible and articulate disturber of the complacent and the comfortable. Already Bennett has been on the phone to enlist the like-minded energy of HUD Secretary-designate Jack Kemp, saying, "You've got public housing, the K mart of drugs. Let's clean...
McKinney rules his czardom with a hand that would do Iron Man proud. "I don't buy any Archie or war comics," he says. "Those are below me. I don't buy too many D.C. Comics like Superman or Batman--they're geared for kids." Occasionally, his despotism provokes unrest among the Quincy House kulaks. A suggestion book in the library contains the following note, signed "Fidel": "Keep our comic book library up to date with new issues of Sergeant Rock. He only shows up with a new issue sporadically. We need our blood and guts on a regular basis...