Word: mumbo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film, however, shows Malcolm's development from star preacher for Elijah Muhammad to independent political figure. The transformation is told in newsreel footage that still holds the power to singe the conscience. We see Malcolm on street corners, fervently laying down the Black Muslim gospel of mumbo-jumbo racism, castigating the "palefaces" and "white devils" and attracting the angriest, most disaffected of blacks with his unyielding insistence on racial pride. Then we watch a rift develop between Malcolm and Elijah, a break that began with Malcolm as part of his political growth...
...speed freak on the corner who hustled bad acid and talked non-stop about getting it all together "in a commune somewhere." Hippie began to dress in a black cape, wearing a Mephistophiles beard and an upside-down crucifix, cultivating a rap of strange mumbo-jumbo, anywhere from the teachings of the English satanist Aleister Crowley to the fascist meanderings of Robert Heinlein's science fiction masterpiece, Stranger in a Strange Land. Hippie became a laboratory rat for Darwin's theory of the survival of the fittest, for out on the street, the rule of the land seemed to rest...
When Dewey became Manhattan's district attorney, Fuld headed his indictments bureau and soon became a leading criminal-law reformer. Appalled at the prolix, mumbo-jumbo language of indictments, he boiled the lengthy forms into two or three precise sentences. Fuld's forms are still in use throughout the state. By weeding out other legal technicalities, such as overly narrow categories of larceny, which left loopholes for the guilty, Fuld earned high praise from at least one leading judge, who wrote to urge his elevation to New York's top court. Governor Dewey soon obliged...
This criterion proved to be quite a shock. The Committee's grounds for allowing an appeal hearing, "compelling evidence" were outrageous. The Committee had set more stringent grounds for granting an appeal hearing than it had previously stipulated for acquittal. This initial outrageous requirement was exacerbated by more Committee mumbo-jumpo...
...meeting is a waste of time. First Hughes feigns ignorance of its purpose. Then Zeckendorf cuts through the mumbo-jumbo and makes an offer. Hughes rejects it out of hand but has what he wants: a free appraisal of his property's value from one of the nation's most astute and best-publicized business brains...