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...certainly understandable. Only an idiot would place a canine corps in a large urban center- it's like pouring gasoline on a fire. Black people have always had a terrific fear of dogs. I think it stems from the original slave-owners use of dogs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: City Law Enforcement Officials Enroll in Harvard Law Programs | 10/27/1970 | See Source »

...newest addition to his writings has no action, no suspense. Most of it is idiot didacticism; the rest is garbled muddle...

Author: By Garrett. Epps, | Title: Sci-Fi Bobby, Bobby Heinlein, How Could You Treat Us So? | 10/3/1970 | See Source »

...book is scaled like a snake with glittering little momentary selves: studio Eskimos, horseparlor dwarfs, rentable Texans and a legion of sad-eyed nobodies who have "come to California to die." Eros is their ethos, violence their pastime. They drift toward a climax in which a holy idiot stomps a depraved child actor and in turn is torn to pieces by a giggling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Great Despiser | 8/17/1970 | See Source »

Bator said of the trip, "It might seem a very nuancy thing for someone who wants to burn down University Hall, but for us middle-aged squares to go to Washington in public like this and tell them to Get The Hell Out Of Cambodia. Stop The Idiot Bombing, and reaffirm the road being taken in the past to withdraw all troops, is a big deal. Those of us formerly of the Cabinet and subcabinet level are here-by announcing that we are no longer playing the private game. We publicly regard the change in policy as intolerable...

Author: By Mike Kinsley, | Title: 12 Professors Visit Capitol Hill Along Their Road to Damascus | 5/15/1970 | See Source »

...access to bad as well as good news of U.S. space shots underscored the openness of American society. Hundreds of millions followed the suspsnse story on television, radio and in the press. Even sophisticates who have become ostentatiously blasé about space?if not downright hostile?succumbed. ."I watched the idiot box," wrote Columnist Max Lerner, "as if, by sheer will, I could mesmerize the TV reporter into telling us that all was well in the best of all possible spaceships, on the best of all possible moon probes. I couldn't and he didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Apollo's Return: Triumph Over Failure | 4/27/1970 | See Source »

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