Word: liar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...take it back. Lewis made it again. "So I smacked him," recounted Dreiser later with relish. "And I asked him if he wanted to say it again. He said it again. So I smacked him again." The two men were separated, with Lewis shouting, "Theodore, you are a liar and a thief." Dreiser was flooded with congratulatory mail...
...hand, before the white man ("You dah boss, Boss"). Here is the bighearted, yuk-yuk-yukking Southern mammy (Helen Martin). Here is the corn-pone simpleton (Ruby Dee) who says things like "Indo. I deed." Here is the unlicensed preacher hero, Purlie Victorious Judson (Ossie Davis)-a liar, a braggart, a trickster, and the self-appointed messiah of his race ("Who else is they got?"). And here, too, is the neo-Confederate villain, Ol' Cap'n Cotchipee (Sorrell Booke), a Simon Legree plantation owner equipped (in A.D. 1961) with a bull whip and not-quite-so-unbelievable quips...
...until five months later-disqualifying parents of illegitimate children. Testified Kirk at a commission hearing: "She asked did I have any illegitimate children. I said, 'Not as I knows of. If I has, I hasn't been accused of.' She says, 'You are a damned liar.' I just smiled; I could still give the smile. Then she said, 'I know you were going to tell a lie at the first place.' Then she asked the question, 'What were "disfranchise" mean?' I said, 'Just like I am now. This is disfranchise...
...repudiate your Communist affiliations?" asked a reporter, recalling Kenyatta's residence in Moscow in 1929 and 1933. Retorted Jomo: "Anyone who says I am or was a Communist is a liar. I went to Russia for an education. I also lived in England for a long time, but that doesn't mean I became an Englishman!" In fact he was all for keeping the cold war out of Africa. "I recall an old Swahili proverb," said Kenyatta. " 'When two elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.' If East and West fight over Africa, only...
Audiences who fill London's Cambridge Theater to see a play called Billy Liar do well to mind their manners. Not long ago, the young leading actor turned on a chattering group in the stalls and said: "I'm up here working, so if you won't shut up, go home. And if you don't, I'm going home." No one left, for the audience had come to see Albert Finney, 24, who has been widely heralded in Britain as "the second Olivier...