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...limitations of the job. Jackson, now 42, was slowed up on the club circuit because, says a friend, using Hollywood's favorite word, he had "too much musical integrity." He was also inclined, when cocktail conversation annoyed him, to slam the keyboard and announce: "I can't insult that lovely tune." For a time he wavered between jazz and a classical career, but eventually made up his mind that he would rather "classicize jazz than jazzicize the classics." With him, it hardly makes any difference...
...Adding insult to injury, two-thirds of all the refugees from what Ulbricht fondly calls "the first worker and peasant state in German history" have been workers and peasants, and no fewer than 3,933 card-carrying members of Communist Ulbricht's elite Socialist Unity Party joined the departing hordes in 1960 alone...
...Worst Insult. Back at the table, Patterson told a visitor that he had no apologies to make for any of his actions during the weeks of crisis. The Kennedy Administration was to blame, particularly Bobby Kennedy. "He has no idea of conditions here," said Patterson. "God Almighty, what he's trying to do is provoke a civil war. They try and get you to admit you can't or won't guarantee law enforcement, and then they twist your words because the marshals are on the way anyway. That Bobby Kennedy is just treacherous, that...
...passed in 1907, declared that a man under the influence of alcohol must be considered to be "temporarily unsound of mind," thereby exonerating him of legal responsibility for any crimes committed when drunk. As a result, Japan's tipsy tipplers break store windows, kick dents in car fenders, insult passing women, even commit murder, without fear of lawsuit or punishment. (One jurist estimates that an average of ten murderers a year go scot-free because...
...This is not a book This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty...what you will...