Word: dispossessing
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...McCarthy alone. No fewer than nine major groups of Democrats are determined to dispossess the President, to reverse his Viet Nam policies, or both. Dissenting Democrats, an outfit headed by Actor Robert (The Man From U.N.C.L.E.) Vaughn, is placing ads in 25 newspapers to warn the President: "From this day on, our campaign funds, our energies and our votes go to those, and only those, who work for an end to the war in Viet Nam." In Chicago at week's end, the Conference of Concerned Democrats met to chart plans for slates opposed to Johnson in 15 states...
...many French intellectuals, this scientific determinism seems to fill the void left by the failure of humanism. The world Communist revolution failed: the proletariat did not dispossess the capitalists or God. Existentialism failed: numerous reversals in the political causes it supported have exposed the fragility of the notion that human will can dictate history...
...plus room and board. "Suburban citizens still solid enough to have gardens that needed care could have them tended for $1 a week." Not that Bendiner's family had any of those luxuries. Their only fun was buying on the installment plan. The day the Bendiners received a dispossess notice from their Manhattan landlord was also the day they received a regulation-size pool table ordered for the apartment on credit...
Besides Miss Firth and Rosen, I liked Richard Cooke, as a henchman of the demagogic Southern senator who wants to dispossess the poor but tolerant folk in whose valley Finian has sunk his funds; Pat Wynn, as the hero's graceful kid sister who, being mute, dances to communicate (don't worry, she'll learn to say "I . . . love . . . you" before the curtain; and Steve Presser, in the small role of a cigar-chawin', bulge-bellied minion...
Warhol soup cans vie for the ready money with old masters. Alfalfa fortunes, born yesterday, successfully bid for art treasures against landed wealth. Rich plumbers dispossess the gentry on art-museum boards. Such propositions tickle Baird, an art insider, who deserted a gilt-framed career (New York's Frick Collection, Washington's National Gallery of Art) in favor of novel writing. Baird wields a deft brush to capture art's comic possibilities, but he wastes his brush strokes on a canvas of postage-stamp size...