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Lincoln wouldn't have a chance today. He was homely, poor and honest and in addition, had an unattractive wife. This would make him persona non grata by today's shallow standards. The build up of unqualified candidates via TV and the news media is disgusting...
...Women's Wear Baily was barred from the reception merely for revealing the wedding-dress design, TIME'S people must have been maxima non grata after printing that 1956 snapshot. Even we Lyndonphobes thought it ungentlemanly to remind the swan there was a duckling...
Incensed, the Dutch government immediately declared Li persona non grata, gave him 24 hours to leave the country. Amid reports that the murdered Hsu had been trying to defect to the West, Dutch police surrounded the Chinese mission in order to question any of his fellow welding delegates who might try to leave. None...
Everyone found out what was wrong last week when the FBI released details of the case. Careless George Careful was "PNG'D" (kicked out of the U.S. as persona non grata) by the State Department. Mrkva, who had turned over to the FBI all of his receipts from the Czechs, admitted that spying "was hardly worthwhile" as a way to get rich quick. But the State Department showed its appreciation by giving him a raise from $9,267 to $10,619 a year...
...André Gide pointed out long ago from personal experience, there are several varieties of homosexuals that the heterosexual world lumps together but that "feel an irrepressible loathing for one another." Today in the U.S., there are "mixed" bars where all homosexuals, male and female, are persona grata; "cuff-linky" bars that cater to the college and junior-executive type; "swish" bars for the effeminates and "hair fairies" with their careful coiffures; "TV" bars, which cater not to television fans but to transvestites; "leather" bars for the tough-guy types with their fondness for chains and belts; San Francisco...