Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with many of the Congressmen heading straight for the White House from the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, still in their business suits. As waiters whisk through the Red and Green rooms with trays of drinks, the President claps his hands for attention. It is time, he says, to mix a little work with a little play. The members of the House should follow him, the ladies, Mrs. Johnson...
...nonchurchgoing Roman Catholic, but a devout snob and a glutton, a sexman and a Potterish ployman of epic pretensions. His exploits in one-upmanship take the form of a baroque conversational style, impeccable scholarship in cigars, and a collection of snuffboxes with appropriate snuff (antelope horn for the Otterburn mix). He hates progress, Protestants, Negroes, Jews, Americans, today and tomorrow. Such a man, Amis implies, has done very nicely thank-you in England, but in the U.S. he suffers cruel and unusually funny punishment for all these things...
...Irish performed less brilliantly in other areas of American life. A practicing Catholic, Shannon nevertheless blames the Irish Catholic clergy for most Irish shortcomings in the U.S. The clergy were too busy building the church to bother about intellectual pursuits, and warned their congregations not to mix with the Protestant population. "The conservatives of the church," writes Shannon, "struggled to ensnare and pinion the live corpus of the faithful in their own petty vision, a vision of a claustral parish world: tidy, thick-curtained, breathing of dust, every antimacassar firmly in place...
...Stated in simple terms, police and politics do not mix," Brennan said. "If a police officer wants to go into politics, he should separate himself from the police department and give full attention to his new profession...
Yesterday, Brennan accused Maher of having broken both a departmental rule and a Massachusetts statute that prohibit the acceptance of political contributions by police officers. He also claimed that Maher's campaign had infringed "the right of our citizens to be assured that no attempt is being made to mix politics with police work...