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...reply, Steinberg called the president's accusations "intellectually dishonest," and declared that he was not a Communist or a Communist sympathizer. He admitted Gallagher's right to object to the Observation Post's presentation of articles, but questioned his "right to use smear tactics as he has." He said that he was aware of the "Communist domination" of the youth festivals, but that they were "excellent mediums for students to get together" and that they "offered greater possibilities for peace...
...sent him,'' wrote White. "The easy, the sentimental way would be to sympathize with Powers-to say that, after all, he had his life to save and so why should he not have cooperated with his Russian accusers. But this would be a view as stickily dishonest as it would be superficially compassionate...
Shudder at the Summit. In his tirade, Khrushchev portrayed President Eisenhower as "spineless," incompetent and dishonest. "When he is no longer President, and if he chooses to work in our country, we could give him a job as a director of a children's home-I am sure he would not harm the children. But it is dangerous for a man like this to run a nation. I say so because I know him. I saw the way he behaved at the Geneva summit conference in 1955, and I felt sorry...
...more eccentric vein. Graves maintains that neither Benedict Arnold nor Judas were traitors. Sample argument: "A dishonest treasurer, as Judas is represented as being, would not have sold out at that petty price." The title piece of Food for Centaurs is a superlative action shot of Graves in the fine, frenzied throes of a theory. By some recondite detective work, he reaches the conclusion that the centaurs' food was mushrooms. It was a very special scarlet-capped European mushroom, known as the fly-amanite. According to Graves, this mushroom is fiery to the taste, imparts extraordinary muscular strength...
...experience and observation have convinced me that an indestructible prejudice against Republicanism is deeprooted. The Democrats' propaganda has placed a label of big business and selfish interest on their opposition party, while selling themselves as the only champion of social welfare and prosperity. This false impression is a dishonest appraisal of the differentiation between the parties' principles and accomplishments-but it sticks...