Word: hiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...essential characteristic of satire, according to Johnson, is criticism. He explained that "the 'crack' in 'wisecrack' is the crack of the whip, which is never more effective than when it is cutting into someone's hide...
...candidates and their programs in a cool, objective light, free of the usual hoopla, pennants and brass bands. The electronic eyes that scan the men in the TV studio are devoid both of prejudice and of any softening human kindness. For the candidates there is no place to hide, no way of ducking behind a "no comment" or a sonorous platitude. Every quaver of voice, every fleeting grimace, is subject to merciless scrutiny...
...store in every town carries a large stock of "do-it-yourself" bomb shelter kits, when Civil Defense authorities publicly argue about the most attractive design for an underground city, Civil Defense measures come to symbolize the prospects for ultimate security. But to accept such artificial security is to hide from the clearest and most terrifying reality in the world today. To accept emotionally the prospect of the human race huddling underground indefinitely is tacitly to abandon everything man has accomplished on the earth...
...hide when I'm dead...
...tanned his hide when he died, Clyde...