Word: hisses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Magruder was a witness for Alger Hiss at his New York prejury trial in 1949. Hiss was convicted of passing secret State Department documents to Whittaker Chambers...
...colleague of Communications Theorist Marshall McLuhan at Fordham University, Father Schillaci presented his vision of the sermon of the future to a meeting in Toronto last week of the Catholic Homiletic Society. "If you see anything you don't like," he calmly warned the audience, "boo or hiss or knock the guy next to you off his chair. This is intended to stir up all kinds of emotions...
...hundreds of New Yorker cartoons, the urbane Arno (born Curtis Arnoux Peters) aimed his thrusts at wattled old roues ("Tell me about yourself, your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number"), besabled matrons and their derby-hatted husbands ("Come on-we're going to the Trans-Lux to hiss Roosevelt"), flappers with more booze than brain in their heads ("Ixnay, Edith, I just found out we're at the wrong party"). Some of his humor had a bitter quality, exemplified by the aircraft designer viewing a flaming crash with the comment: "Well, back to the old drawing board...
...response to criticism of Rockefeller's foreign policy, Bustin said "What we need is not one hawk, but two. Then Hanoi would know where we stand." As the audience hissed, Bustin asked, "Would John Quincy Adams hiss? Would Woodrow Wilson hiss? I think...
...Josephson deals with some noted figures who were touched by the grandeurs and miseries of the '30s. He has Edmund Wilson darkly prophesying that come the revolution, some intellectual enemy would "be done away with." Whittaker Chambers makes the scene as a malevolent monster who framed a guiltless Hiss, and John Dos Passes is treated with oblique sneers. Chambers and Dos Passos had been vehemently for, and later, vehemently against Communism, and this perhaps is what disturbs Josephson. No Comrade Quixote, he was happily embraced by the New Deal bureaucracy, and remained a puzzled neutral in the ideological warfare...