Word: hangings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Joyfully Biased. Hinckle readily concedes that Ramparts stories are "totally and absolutely and joyfully biased. We went in to hang the CIA. We went in to hang the Saigon government, to kill the war in Vietnam. That's what political journalism is all about." But he complains, as does Scheer, that the magazine has paid dearly for its opinionated independence. Stories on Black Power, Barry Goldwater and the CIA all led to cancellations of advertising. So did an editorial that took an almost neutral, rather than pro-Israel stance on the Arab-Israeli war. "You have madness in publishing...
...Character. Legman contends that a man's taste in coarse humor is the key to his character, and also reveals the depth of his anxiety about Western civilization's three great sexual hang-ups: venereal disease, homosexuality and castration...
...share some female errors fall/ Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all." In the same work, he railed against man's injustice in a deceptively quiet couplet: "The hungry judges soon the sentence sign,/And wretches hang that jurymen may dine...
...women were predominantly Indian-Stone Age girls with few of the hopes or hang-ups of their white Victorian Age sisters. In most tribes, premarital sex was common (and was sometimes encouraged as a practical check against the cuckolding of married warriors by unmarried braves when the husbands were afield), and the Indian girl usually displayed a hearty appetite...
...missed Kicks this time around, be thankful that it will return to these shores next year. It's too bad that someone hasn't convinced the eminently likable people who produced it to hang their hats permanently in our Cambridge. A year is a long time, and they'll be missed...