Word: haters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even though I am an old Nixon hater, I am appalled at Kissinger's snide and demeaning comments concerning Nixon's private side. While Nixon was President, Kissinger enjoyed all the benefits of power and prestige, as he still does by writing about his White House days; yet now that Nixon is in disgrace, Kissinger administers low blows...
...first thing one hears is the cry of birds. A solitary figure shuffles in like a molting heron wearing steel-rimmed spectacles. He is Norman Thayer Jr. (Tom Aldredge), hater of the New York Yankees, high dental fees and, most of all, the thought of turning 80. For 48 years, Norman and his wife Ethel (Frances Sternhagen) have summered at their Maine cottage on Golden Pond...
...black and white structure. No complexity, no troubling questions of historical perspectives or methodological approaches. Simple. Bad guys versus good guys. Black and white. Each episode opened with a violent crime. Kojak would be called in--the bald, wise-cracking New York cop specializing in homicide and a professional hater of a) crooks, b) rich crooks and c) the rich, who probably were crooks anyway or they wouldn't have so much money. Kojak would eventually solve the case in his alloted hour or so and dispatch the criminal by bullet or indictment...
...self-proclaimed Nazis, who number only about 25, proved as much last June when they ignited a rock-throwing, club-wielding melee over the movement of blacks into a white community near Marquette Park. Last week a demented Nazi cultist proved again that even a single such hater can trigger tragedy...
...think Weil was a self-hater?" a student asked me provocatively over Sunday dinner after reading Elizabeth Hardwick's recent New York Times Book Review piece on this new biography of Simone Weil. The questioner was suggesting that Weil, the French Jewish philosopher who died of self-inflicted starvation during the Second World War, was driven in her life and was led to final self-destruction by a sense of racial shame and guilt...