Word: malignance
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...fall of great personages from high places (casus virorum illustrium) gave to medieval politics their festive and brutal character." The real '60s began on the afternoon of Nov. 22, 1963, and they turned festive and brutal too. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out. His assassination became the prototype in a series of public murders: Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Robert Kennedy. His death prefigured all the deaths of the young in Viet...
Although student recruiters here have increased their efforts at contacting Black students who apply to Harvard. Ari M. Fitzgerald '84, co-coordinator for Black recruiting, said that undergraduate recruiters never try to malign other schools to convince students to come to Harvard...
...malign indifference of the great powers is an inevitable part of the portage. In Paris, a French official worries lest the half-forgotten crimes of the Vichy regime be embarrassingly exposed. A German veteran, now a government lawyer, wonders who will have jurisdiction over the prisoner. A boisterous American who flies to Brazil and starts prattling about television syndication turns out to be a representative...
...combined graft, violence and promises of "Every Man a King" to build a kind of populist police state in Louisiana. Long was already threatening to run for President when he was shot down in the late summer of 1935 by a man whose family he had ruined. Almost equally malign was a Roman Catholic priest, Father Charles Coughlin, whose ardent and often anti-Semitic broadcasts from his Shrine of the Little Flower in Royal Oak, Mich., brought him a vast following (he regularly received 80,000 letters a week). To overthrow Roosevelt, whom Coughlin denounced as "anti-God," the priest...
...Penthouse trial, Spence used a typical strategy: portraying his client as a simple, small victim of big malign forces. To the six Cheyenne jurors, he characterized Penthouse Publisher Bob Guccione, 50, as an arrogant, unprincipled New Yorker, "the gentleman sitting over there in the velvet pants." When Guccione suggested that only people with the intelligence of a "flatworm" would think the disputed article was nonfiction, Spence, a University of Wyoming law graduate, began to refer to himself and fellow state residents as mere flatworms. He also listed 15 similarities between Pring and the protagonist of the article, which described...