Word: insulters
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...gangs are formed, and what Freud called the "narcissism of small differences" begins to operate. "Turfs" or gang territories are established. "Points of honor" become the meaning in life. And so, into insults--the formal insult, say, of invading rival "turf"--is poured all the accumulated frustration endemic in our society. As Goodman puts it, "It is inevitable that there should be a public dream of universal disaster, with vast explosions, fires, and electric shocks...
...Dick Nixon, Curran reported that Khrushchev has only contempt for the Vice President: "He is a fumbler. He is not a politician but a grocery clerk." Such a bad billing from K. suited the Nixon forces just fine, but last week a rebuttal to the Red boss's insult was put in by an unlikely enrolled Republican. In an outraged letter to Nikita, James A. Suffridge, president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Retail Clerks International Association, protested: "It is far better to be a free grocery clerk in America than it is to be top dog in the Soviet Union...
...Japanese have good reason for being uneasy over their connection with America, I fear. I think they know-or guess-that when the Hundred Years' War between the big powers boils up into shooting again, both sides will hang back as long as possible from the irrevocable insult: direct attack on each other's home soil...
...Insult to All. Because Communist chieftains are so eager to see division in the West, they tend to overestimate both the width of the fissures they detect and their ability to widen them with ploys, threats and propaganda. Crude Communist efforts to stir division within the U.S. or between the U.S. and its allies often have the opposite effect of fostering a more determined unity. Inevitably, Khrushchev's attack on President Eisenhower rebounded...
...visit Russia next month. He demanded an apology for the U-2 flight, threatened to break up the summit conference unless the U.S. would promise to punish all responsible for the flight and promise that all such overflights cease. He suggested, in the kind of face to face insult that strained even cold war diplomacy, that the summit should be adjourned until the U.S. could elect a new president...