Word: mountebanking
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Nothing Personal. In this atmosphere, Daily Editor Gary Althen, 21, this fall allowed Carl Mitcham, 26, a late-blooming philosophy student, to publish a polemic calling Goldwater "a fool, a mountebank, a murderer, no better than a common criminal." Campus conservatives informed Goldwater. President Newton apologized. Unsatisfied, Goldwater wrote a stinging reply: "You either do not know what is going on in the university, or you don't care, and in charity I will presume the former. To put it briefly, I doubt that you have the interest or the concern to be in the position you hold...
...decision had come after three weeks of controversy following the printing of an article written by Mitcham in the Gadfly, a weekly opinion supplement to the Daily, on Sept. 21. Commenting on United States polities, Mitcham, a philosophy major, had attacked Sen. Barry Goldwater as a "fool, a mountebank, a murderer, no better than a common criminal...
...same time he is a shrewd entertainer who admits he will stop at nothing to keep his audiences awake. In three of his pictures he has shown a Shakespearean fascination with the life of the strolling player, the poor mountebank who, "like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven as make the angels weep." Clearly, he sees himself as such an ape. Says Bergman: "I perform conjuring tricks with a conjuring apparatus so expensive and so wonderful that any performer in history would have given anything to use it. I am really a conjurer...
...graduating class of the R.A.F. College at Cranwell. England, Air Marshal Sir Richard Atcherley, chief of the service's flight training program, confided: "You are going to be passed out by a mountebank who never passed in." The Atcherley secret: on their first try for Cranwell, Sir Richard and his twin brother David (killed in a 1952 air crash) flunked their physicals, he for weak eyes, David for a tricky kidney. Two months later they tried again. "In a contingency of this sort," said the marshal, "there are obvious advantages in being twins. So when we returned, with very...
...Racketeer is about a Neapolitan mountebank (Toto) who lives a dog's life at the heels of un guappo (Pasquale Cennamo)-a big vegetable in the Neapolitan underworld. When the hood has a heart attack...