Word: henchman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...campus dissidents who still resent his long association with the past regime, he is the "dictator's henchman." To almost everybody else in South Korean politics, however, he is perhaps the most skilled and experienced civil servant in the land and an incorruptible "Mr. Clean" who has always put duty above ambition. Even opposition party leaders give him considerable credit for having kept the country calm in the traumatic aftermath of President Park Chung Hee's assassination...
...Kurt Vonnegut (Delacorte/Seymour Lawrence, $9.95): At last, Vonnegut captures the essence of the Harvard Experience: Mid-Western chauffeur's son is packed off to Harvard by a stammering millionaire. He promptly becomes a Communist, serves time in the Roosevelt and Nixon camps, then lands in jail as a Watergate henchman. Praised as the best of Vonnegut's recent works...
Teng attended the first Red Guard rallies, but he was soon singled out as a key target of the radical youths who spearheaded Mao's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Teng was excoriated in the press as "Liu's henchman" and "even more sinister and dangerous than Liu." Pamphlets and wall posters claimed that Teng's consuming bourgeois passions were mah-jongg and bridge. While supposedly on inspection tours, it was charged, Teng was traveling around the country on specially chartered trains and planes with his card-playing cronies...
...acted in the tradition of a great American institution of higher learning. He felt that the Hanfstaengl scholarship at Harvard would be a contradiction of all that great University stands for." In a somewhat different tone, the San Diego Union crowed that by "rejecting a scholarship from a Hitler henchman, Harvard hoists the college colors over German," adding "and is Herr Hitler's face crimson!" The New York Sun carried a letter from "an old Yale man" who said that "naturally and properly, I have always had a rather slight opinion of Harvard and all its works. That...
...life. We are supposed to be moved when we see Victor's devoted Chinese girlfriend (guess what she does for a living?) help him expand his vocabulary. We are supposed to be elated when Victor wins the final wrestling match against Freddy the Thumper, gangster Stitch Malone's obnoxious henchman, and the three brothers embrace--past disputes forgotten for the moment. What we are, however, is bored...