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...diocese can still remember when signs were hung announcing that "Drunken Irish need not apply." Their memories are even more vivid and bitter when, seemingly without discrimination, their officals are called corrupt and vicious. Cardinal Cushing's wrath is easy to understand, but his resurrection of religious distrust will only throw a stranglehold on genuine and rational attempts to clean up the city...
...tremendous danger" to the U.S. First making it clear that he had no sympathy for defeatists "who would rather be Red than dead," Kennedy went on to say: "Nor do I have any sympathy with those, who in the name of fighting Communism, sow the seeds of suspicion and distrust by making false or irresponsible charges, not only against their neighbors but against courageous teachers and public officials and against the foundations of our Government-Congress, the Supreme Court, and even the presidency itself...
...cynicism. His best-known book, All the King's Men, is a good novel with great flaws. Its strengths are in mood, speech and flow of action; its weaknesses are Warren's failure to see the viciousness in Willie Stark, his idealized Huey Long character, and his distrust of his own ability to get through the book without melodrama. The novel's too-obtrusive narrator becomes aware of the unfathomable intertwinings of guilt, for instance, only when he learns that the man he has destroyed at Willie's request is his own father...
Lacking educational opportunities and skills, they were victims of a vicious exploitive system under which each family gave three man-days of labor every week in return for a meager plot of land on which to live and farm. A "serf" mentality, inability to make decisions, and complete distrust of outsiders after centuries of being cheated, beaten, and exploited made progress impossible. Vicos and many similar haciendas remained feudal anachronisms in a rapidly changing country...
...industrial plants. I'm not saying I did it all but certainly I had a small part . . . When it comes to spending money on the Arkansas River. I plead guilty to being a spender." He has a pet statistic ready at hand for Arkansans who, like Alford, distrust "Government spending": "There are those who say we shouldn't send our money to Washington and get back 50? for every dollar. I had some figures checked and I find that in 1960 the State of Arkansas paid $229 million to the Federal Government in taxes. We got back...