Word: inveigh
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...Edinburgh's International Festival of the Arts, which was to offer plays featuring a homosexual embrace, two topless actresses and a sketch about the genitals of primitive man. Malcolm Muggeridge was moved to take the pulpit at St. Giles' Cathedral and inveigh against such "illiterate filth." "Have what passed for being art forms ever before been so drenched and impregnated with erotic obsessions, so insanely preoccupied with our animal nature and its appetites?" demanded Muggeridge. "Let a collection of yahoos but take off their clothes, cavort about the stage and yell obscenities and a great breakthrough in dramatic...
...women gathered, burbling babes on many laps, in a kaffeeklatsch campaign so stimulating to Romney's cause that an undercover Nixonite grated: "We ought to get this going for Nixon now." Sipping coffee, munching doughnuts, shaking Romney's hand, the women heard him inveigh against godlessness, immorality, sloth, the decline of the family, even the English, whom he characterized as interested only in "two hots and a cot," or two square meals and a place to sleep. When it came to Viet Nam, however, so vague were his exhortations for the most part that even hard-liners...
...Senate seat that Lausche now holds. Said State Chairman Morton Neipp: "We need some discipline in the party." Lausche, 72, remarked that the challenge, which will be settled in the May 7 primary, "neither pleased nor distressed" him. After all, it will give him a chance to inveigh yet again against the bosses...
...hurriedly cashing in their coupons for gifts, many of them failing to realize that the contemplated legislation will probably take a year to go into effect. London newspapers were edgy about the possibility that the crackdown might include a ban on all cigarette advertising. Editorially, some papers began to inveigh against abuse of government control. Said the Daily Telegraph: "Freedom must include the right to take calculated risks even to life itself...
Though these gentlemen inveigh against "sloppy use of terminology," they make supposedly meaningful distinctions between three political positions of the thirties, i.e., Communists, anti-Communists, and anti-anti-Communists. While ignoring the total superficiality of this approach as not needing any serious comment, I might suggest that to maintain that these divisions exist "virtually the same way today" is an open admission of the bankruptcy of their political analysis. Surely they must recognize, if only privately, that the political arena has substantially changed in both content and style during the last ten years. It may be that organizations such...