Word: meanness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...racist" to call for law and order (Dick Gregory). Does Mr. Gregory mean that if you're for law and order you must be against Negroes, because they are not (for law and order)? I'm trying to figure that...
...review of Henry VIII by J. J. Scarisbrick [Aug. 2] mentioned that Anne Boleyn, second wife of King Henry, said "a gentler nor a more merciful prince was there never" before being beheaded. This may not mean that the King was an admirable character, since it was traditional in those days for condemned persons to say a good word for the monarch before their death. If a convicted person started a last-minute inflammatory tirade against the monarch, he could be dragged off at the very last minute, to a much crueler death...
...Brave girl!" said her chum. That almost defines it. All the tension, inhibitory release and involvement are reserved for the cast. For the spectator, a nude is a nude is a nude. Dramatically, nudes will never mean much in the theater until they do something...
...mere fact that many Justices did and do engage in various pursuits outside the court does not mean that such activities fail to raise problems. In fact, Fortas' admission of presidential troubleshooting has only served to heighten discussion in legal circles of the propriety involved in out-of-court activities...
What do all these polls mean anyway, when CBS, AP and UPI can come up with different answers? After all, there is no sampling error--they are polling all 1333 delegates. And why the small shifts every day? It is because one day, a poor defenseless woman delegate is cornered by three aggressive Nixon aides and practically battered into switching her allegiance. By the next day, Rockefeller would have heard about this, and his men would go and batter her back. In between, she may tell AP she favors Nixon, UPI she favors Rockefeller, and CBS she's uncommitted...