Word: hellings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...business. "He thinks," says an OEO official, "that he owns the poor." To which Alinsky replies that the Administration program is "the greatest feeding trough that has come along for the welfare industry in years." Ridiculing the paper-sifting public-welfare bureaucracy, he once snorted: "If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, there must be a 36-lane boulevard to hell paved with surveys...
This French-bred farce is set in 1905, and Ford has no trouble convincing anyone that the swiftest road to hell is to read the early plays of George Bernard Shaw. That is what his daughter is doing, and she has already fallen in love with a chauffeur. Depravity surrounds Ford. The clerk of his sporting-goods concern has lifted half a million dollars from the firm, and makes a scoundrelly proposition. He will abscond with the loot unless Ford gives him his daughter's hand and a general managership. The swag is in two matching bags. When...
...place, and sometimes gives her a lick, right in front of Mommy. Since they are all unloving and unloved, no one is hurt. But the pomposities of the dialogue can be pretty wounding: "The sky is pocked with stars," "I've spent two years on every street in hell...
...effort to prove that court officials as well as newspapers were prejudiced, Bailey told how Judge Blythin had confided to Hearst Columnist Dorothy Kilgallen in a pretrial interview that Sheppard was "guilty as hell.'' Ohio Attorney General William Saxbe contended that Kilgallen's affidavit had never been sworn. Because Kilgallen as well as Judge Blythin have since died, Saxbe maintained that the statement could not be rebutted and was inadmissible. Bailey retorted that an assistant attorney general of Ohio had accompanied him when he talked with Kilgallen, and they agreed that her statement did not have...
...themselves to something that might be a bust. Freshman Cliffies are so vulnerable to being used--if they are approached by this charismatic figure and made to think they could use Young Dems to meet people like him, they would work. And as long as they worked, what the hell would Young Dems care...