Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...while he had one pledged delegate, 666 short of the total he would need to win the Republican presidential nomination. Then he released the one he had. His national campaign staff numbers seven. After Robert Kennedy's murder, he was assigned a few Secret Service guards, which prompted a Congressman's quip: "It's the biggest crowd he's had this campaign." Not even his wife accompanies him on his campaign. Yet he persists. He is Harold Stassen, who quadrennially offers up his obsession on the public altar-where it is scorned...
...violent nation now, just wait until our young children grow up. My childhood was neuter dolls, chutes and ladders, and Little Lulu. Today's childhood is erotic dolls, authentic replicas of war guns (complete with vivid sounds) and a Saturday morning TV listing with enough sadism and murder to give even the most hardened criminal ideas...
...your Essay "Politics and Assassination" [June 14], you make the statement: "No French President has been murdered since 1932." De Gaulle has survived some six or eight murder attempts. The French are not law abiding, merely lousy shots...
...butcher named Bedřich (Vladimir Menšík) has been executed for practicing his art on his wife, whom he found in bed with her lover. The back-to-front story of the trial, his discovery, the murder, his jealous suspicions, the happy honeymoon, the wedding, their first meeting, etc. is made brain-bendingly complicated by being worked for ironies on three levels. First, the narrative of the butcher's life in conventional chronology is matched to the action in reverse chronology (he tells about graduating from school into the world while the camera shows him emerging...
...Cohn's view McCarthy was more sinned against than sinning. "It's grisly," McCarthy whimpers to Cohn in one passage. "They're yelling at the cop who got the goods on the murderer. They don't give a damn about the murder-they only want to know how the cop got the proof." Like McCarthy, Roy Cohn thinks that his boss had "the goods," and on that excuse, grandly dispenses with any debate concerning such matters as due process and character assassination. That is the grisliest fact...