Word: inflamedness
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THE ASSIGNMENT of responsibility in a chaotic situation, however, is often difficult. In Feiner us. New York (1950), the Supreme Court upheld the conviction of a speaker for disorderly conduct on the grounds that his soapbox talk inflamed his audience to the point of violence. Feiner was speaking to a...
Braced for Invasion. Blocked internally, Stalin launched an international Communist propaganda crusade against the Yugoslavs. Dedijer, then serving as director of the Information Office, was amused by personal attacks on himself, but was appalled when a Soviet book accused his first wife, Olga, of having worked for the Gestapo. She...
Does the list seem familiar? It is. But if Newlove applies his Instant Identifreak Kit too patly and produces some characters who are hardly more than bundles of attributes, many of his human inventions swell like bullfrogs from the sheer pressure of his linguistic vitality. Gabriel himself, with his constantly...
WHEN I use a word," declared that famed semanticist, Humpty Dumpty, "it means just what I choose it to mean." He mitigated this tyrannical attitude by explaining that when he made a word do a lot of work, he always paid it extra. Spiro Agnew, who also has a highhanded...
250-Watt Grin. Given such raw dramaturgy, such dim insights, who could possibly have thought The Great White Hope worthwhile? James Earl Jones, for one. And in fact he proves that the role of Jefferson is an actor's dream. Though he played it 429 times onstage, Jones has...