Word: firebranding
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More Immune. It is scandalous to Mrs. Shaw (Katherine Squire) that Andrew (Stanley Anderson), the firebrand, should have ditched his law career to be come an abstract painter. Why has Steven (Philip Charles MacKenzie), the youngest, with his odd, pervasive silence, quit work on his incisive book about modern society? Colin (Paul Collins), the brother in industrial relations, pleas es his mother mightily by announcing.a forthcoming marriage. Consider his rea son: "It's just less embarrassing to be married than...
...bring libel actions against a newspaper-Fleet Street calls them "gagging writs"-all discussion of the case is normally suspended, at least until the suits are adjudicated. Editors who have complained at being muzzled have found little sympathy from officials. "You cannot muzzle a sheep," the late Labor Party firebrand Aneurin Bevan once cracked...
Neither the U.S. nor any other outside force appears able-or eager-to pressure the regime into giving its people more freedom. Internally, the only potential threat to the junta lies in the army's supernationalistic younger officers, who are known as Gaddafists in honor of Firebrand Libyan Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. The Gaddafists now support loannidis, but they could shift, as he did against Papadopoulos. Even if they do, however, the likely outcome would be tighter rule, and the Greeks would be no nearer democracy than they have been since 1967. For the foreseeable future, democracy has been effectively...
...offset the remaining $30,000 debt of the Jackson campaign. In his defeat of Mayor Sam Massell last October, Jackson polled 21% of the white vote. That was a considerable achievement. Massell gave the contest an appallingly racist tinge by branding Jackson a do-nothing and a potential black firebrand in a last-ditch effort to scare up white support. The Massell strategy backfired with the voters and many whites quietly switched their allegiance to Jackson...
...Sumner, firebrand senator from Massachusetts who took to the U.S. Senate floor to launch a direct onslaught on slave-holders, was judged unfit to be professor at the Harvard Law School. He recognized the reason and described it clearly in a letter to his brother: "I am too much...reformer...to be trusted...