Word: hell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There in front of the desk he bathes you in warmth and enthusiasm. The mouth turns down naturally, and that, along with his pointed jaw, could make him seem mean, but he never lets it happen. Humphrey laughs uproariously and shows his visitors a little plaque that says TO HELL WITH DO-GOODERS. He savors a man of light heart and the joy of children. That is why Humphrey somehow bores his constituency to death and then suddenly wins them back and goes on and on. Does he still want to be President? For a moment, there is the hesitation...
Then Humphrey is talking and pacing and lecturing and preaching and laughing. "I give these young people on my staff hell. I say, 'Here I am, an old fuddy-duddy, and I have more ideas than you do.' This Administration is not only apathetic. It is questionable if it is alive." Each new thought, each fresh phrase lights him up as he beholds himself. "It's not a Silent Majority; it's a deaf Administration. There is no spirit." Old Father Humphrey ("Daddy") is up on the wall, the man who read him Woodrow Wilson...
...Mike Gravel (D-Alaska) foresees political problems arising from the lapse of the 1967 law. "These men, the college students, are going to raise hell and object if they're the only ones drafted," he said...
Over the headquarters gate are the Roman numeral four and some words in Vietnamese. The congressman asked if Kublai Khan had built the area. The general said he understood it had been the French. Must be hell to have everything in your country built by somebody else, said the congressman...
...Hell," says Roth, "the idea that only students from B. U. and Northeastern buy term papers is a lot of shit. Harvard students need papers just like everyone else...