Word: hellings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Your May 26 Middle East coverage makes me mad as hell. The Israelis have been harassed for years by Arab marauders; if they have occasionally hit back in desperation, that hardly equates them with those who sneak in at night to plant bombs and kill whomever they can. Our own country has reacted the same many times-against Indians, Mexicans and Tripoli pirates-and we react in similar ways today when our interests are threatened. And tell me, please, how would you react if somebody kept hitting you every time your back was turned...
...officials often had no idea how much they had collected. In New York, where the United Jewish Appeal set up an Israel Emergency Fund, Executive Vice President Herbert Friedman jotted down a flood of big-money pledges on odd scraps of office memo paper. "This," he said, "is a hell of a way to raise millions of dollars...
...start of the war, both Israel and Egypt had some 1,000 tanks each. The Israelis' were largely American and British; Nasser's were Russian, like most of his other equipment. Some 800 on each side squared off to battle for the Sinai Peninsula, a hell's amphitheater of ankle-deep, choking velvet sand broken by the ocher slag heaps of hills and occasional grey-green scrub...
...know if we've contributed a hell of a lot," Norr reflected recently. "We take advantage of our opportunities, such as they are. The administration will always pat us on the back without giving us too much; and students, after all, always want something, but not too much...
There may be a special circle of hell, near Limbo but verging on the abode of party-bores and the wartime baseball players, appointed for writers who Articulate the Concerns of their Time, whose books are eventually parsed to death in intellectual history seminars and who are very thoroughly forgotten by everyone who neither pays nor is paid to read them. Such are Barbara Garson and her skitlet MacBird (I eschew the exclamation point!)--a document, a gadget, a pseudo-cerebral mummers' play in moral blackface. The fact that MacBird's concerns are nearly as unmemorable...