Word: goad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Asia's burden of religious, linguistic and racial antagonism is added the weight of history. New grievances as well as old goad Asians to seek what Calcutta Philosopher Abu Sayeed Ayub calls "the appeasement of the ghosts of our ancestors by slaughtering members of another community." Conquerors have come and gone across Asia, sowing rancor as they marched. For generations after the Burmese raped Siam, Thai women wore crewcuts to avoid being hauled off by the hair. During World War II, brutality by the Japanese earned them loathing throughout Asia; until recently, any Japanese who toured the Philippines risked...
...place to shop. Miss Custin intends to spruce up outside and inside, as she did in Philadelphia. "Display," she says, "is the showmanship of retailing." She will add boutiques to show off the 20% of avant-garde items that persuade shoppers to pause for the other 80%, will also goad buyers to create a common image for the dozen Bonwit stores...
...Roman Catholic cardinal (Eric Berry), not remotely a lamb of God but one of the fatted kine of the clerical Establishment. The other is a lawyer (William Hutt), a man of cool, reptilian venom with a hint of Mephistopheles in his brief beard and black-magical manner. They goad each other with insults, and the cardinal muses malevolently on how the lawyer got his school nickname, "Hyena." "Did we not discover about the hyena that it was a most resourceful scavenger? . . . that to devour the dead, scavenged prey, it would often chew into it through the anus...
...FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). As usual, utterly preposterous, but fun for that reason. In this installment. Agent Solo (Robert Vaughn) is ordered to destroy some germ-loaded missiles that are being used to goad the U.S. and the Soviet Union into atomic...
...nose counting overlooks one stubborn fact: bills still must get out of committee before those floor votes can be cast -and the committees are still considerably dominated by Southern Democrats. Not even the L.B.J. landslide is likely to make Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills like medicare, or goad Rules Chairman Howard Smith into smoothing the legislative path of liberal bills toward the House floor...