Word: labels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sadistic degenerate of the worst type ... He has a man underneath him that is on an equal basis with him." While Cohen ranted on about the "man underneath," Wallace broke in three times to ask his name, apparently unaware that he might be pinning down a libelous label. "His name," said Cohen, "is Captain James Hamilton [chief of the department's intelligence squad], and he's probably a lower degenerate than Parker...
Just as products containing poison are required to carry a warning label, this book should be wrapped in a band warning the weak of stomach that the characters, language, incidents and atmosphere are apt to induce acute nausea. Yet for those who can take it, the book provides the grisly fascination which clings to any dissection of rottenness. Fowlers End is a fictional section of London so far gone in vice, filth and despair that its inhabitants seem bent on denying that they are human. Hogarth would have shuddered at the thought of setting foot there. Nevertheless the book...
...ground rules observed with equal fervor by editorial writers and politicians is that the Civil War is about as amenable to levity as motherhood. It was a reasonably calculated risk for President Eisenhower to call Confederate General Jeb Stuart a headline hunter, and for Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery to label Pickett's charge as ''monstrous." But when Ike and Monty jocularly agreed that Generals Lee and Meade should have been ''sacked'' for their blunders at Gettysburg (TIME, May 20). they committed themselves irrevocably to battle...
...only necessary to read the background of the Inquisition carried out in the name of the "true church" to realize that Communist torture methods are no more horrible or brutal. Tyranny is tyranny whether it goes under the name of "the true church" or any other label. The Catholic Church is as guilty in removing the basic "freedom of choice," upon which all other freedoms are based, as any Communist government which imposes its will on the people...
...most New Hampshire Republicans -and many others who have sampled Loeb's sometimes neuro-individualistic politics-reactionary is too mild a label for balding, black-eyed Bill Loeb. "What New England needs," he argues, "is the two-party system." In New Hampshire and Vermont (where he owns the Burlington News and St. Albans Messenger) he has frequently supported Democrats for state office. When Republican Governor Lane Dwinell announced this month that he would never again give a statement to Loeb's Manchester Sunday News, the publisher chortled: "That's par for the course...