Word: lapelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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years have marshmellowed Jerome Weidman. His 1937 bestselling novel stingingly chronicled the rise of a Manhattan Garment District amoralist named Harry Bogen who was sharper than a Seventh Avenue lapel. In fashioning a musical from that book. Weidman has turned his whole-souled heel into a halfhearted villain, poured sentimental goo over the satire, and given Harry a last-scene redemptive delousing unmatched since the Hays office took in ethical cleansing...
...enraged by the persistent charge that he is under the thumb of the Catholic hierarchy. He resents his cloakroom nickname, "The Archbishop." as an insult to the Catholic Church. He is a deeply religious man who always wears the blue rosette of the Knights of Malta in his lapel. Of the eleven honorary degrees he has received, seven are from Catholic colleges...
...carved canne de jugement, symbol of tribal justice. At Northern Rhodesia's Lusaka airport, Williams was going through the farewell ceremonies with Governor Sir Evelyn Hone, when a burly white man lumbered out of the shadows of the airport administration building. Lunging at Williams, he seized a lapel, spun him around, and let fly with a punch. The blow glanced off Soapy's jaw. Sir Evelyn Hone grappled manfully with the assailant. Police hurried up and hustled him away...
Hostility & Achievement. Author White strives for objectivity, but there is no question whose campaign button adorned his lapel. The TV debates were a "disaster" for Nixon. Kennedy's campaign was "brilliant." His coverage of Kennedy is more complete, more successful than his picture of Nixon. Nor was it entirely his fault: Nixon kept to himself, and his campaign staff was hostile to the press. White sums up a prevalent attitude toward the reporters with a quotation from a Nixon staffer: "Stuff the bastards. They're all against Dick anyway. Make them work-we're not going...
Although German TV has sometimes been plagued by bureaucratic squabbling, it is locally run and self-regulated, might well serve as a model of what American television could be if its potential strength were not sapped away by lampreys, leeches and narrow-lapel orchids...