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...time. In the view of his admirers, he provided extra-constitutional checks and balances against negligence, incompetence and malfeasance by public officials. From detractors, he prompted unprintable epithets and paroxysms of billingsgate. A Tennessee Senator was once moved to fury so intense that it almost scanned: "An ignorant liar, a peewee liar, a revolving, unmitigated, infamous liar...
...should have been obvious that Brigadier General Sir Harry Flashman was just too bad to be true. Liar, lecher, bully, coward and (according to his Who's Who entry, reprinted here) survivor of nearly every 19th century military disaster from the Siege of Lucknow to the Battle of Little Big Horn, he is as appalling and implausible a scoundrel as has ever shambled through the purlieus of the past. All the odder then that since this first volume of his purported "memoirs" was published recently in the U.S., all decked out with notes and glossary, no fewer than...
...must expect things will happen." One professor in the delegation, Leon Wofsy, accused Reagan of making a political speech and undercutting the authority of college administrators by trying to fire chancellors who opposed the statehouse. At that, Reagan slammed his hand on the desk, shouting: "Listen, you are a liar! I've fought to keep politics out of the running of the university." Reagan later blamed Rector's death on "the first college administrator who said it was all right to break laws in the name of dissent...
...turning point that my information saw, she says, came in New Orleans. Styron was speaking before a large audience, she says, when a familiar, young, black face stood up to interrupt the lecture. "You're a liar, Bill Styron," the critic yelled. "I called you a liar in Boston, and I'm calling you a liar here. I came all the way here to call you a liar. Do you remember...
...told the occupants that they had been warned and if they did not leave they would be placed under arrest. The only response, he said, was a chant of "we will not move, we will not go." At that point in his testimony, some of the defendants hissed "liar." Hallice said it took about ten minutes to clear University Hall...