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...reveals himself best by his pungent use of language. Rather like Nikita Khrushchev, he likes to draw on folk tales and proverbs to contrive devastating metaphors against his opponents. He is also fond of quoting from classical Chinese literature. In a 1959 meeting, he cited a Han Dynasty poet to belabor his colleagues for their laziness and love of luxury: "When one travels in a carriage or sedan chair, the body begins to decay. Women with pearly teeth and false eyebrows are the axes that cut down the body's vitality. Delicious meats and fatty foods...
...Weatherman action, then. was a very serious escalation in the tactics of the anti-war movement. Essentially, it was an act of war-which is a very good term. since Weatherman leader Bernardine Dohrn is fond of saying the Weathermen are "the new Red Army fighting behind enemy lines...
...still tough. "I think I'm feisty!" she agrees, "but people have just gotten used to me. Now that I've become like the Statue of Liberty or something. Now that I've come to an age where they think I might disappear-they're fond of me." At her insistence, the theater is kept at a bone-chilling 60° for rehearsals. Last week, noticing that almost everyone in the cast was sniffling, she arrived one morning with a box of sweaters. Dumping them in her dressing room, she announced that they were for anyone...
Friends have called my attention to the fact that Mr. Richard Hyland cites me in his atrocious "Defense of Terrorism." Readers of the CRIMSON may be interested in knowing how Mr. Hyland knows what I am "fond of saying." He came to see me once, back in the spring of 1968. We had a long talk and he tried to get me to agree, among other things, that the participation of the United States in World War II was a mistake. "But Mr. Highland," I interposed, thinking to appeal to his instinct for survival, "you're a Jew, aren...
NELSON AND THE HAMILTONS by Jack Russell. 448 pages. Simon & Schuster. $10. A fond, splendidly informative account of the grotesque but genuine love between a blowsy beauty and the small, skiny, one-armed, one-eyed seaman who was England's greatest admiral...