Word: philippice
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When The Doors finally bring off their electric wedding, it may well take the form of a small-scale musical play. The prototype is The End, their enigmatic, 11½-minute string of visions apparently revolving around an Oedipus situation, in which Morrison portrays several roles-some behind a red...
The cross, as the 89th annual conference of the National Guard Association needed no reminding, was a burden of criticism unparalleled in the Guard's 331-year history. And Mendel Rivers' philippic, which was extreme even for the highly emotional chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, brought...
In the past, the amplified din was so intense that the singers were wailing away in tongues that sounded like a cross between banshee and Bantu. Now, after the takeover of the folk rockers, the words are understandable and, in some cases, even worth understanding. In recent months the pop...
Reaction to the princely philippic from Black Africa was equally sour. Murmured Kenya's External Affairs Minister Joseph Murumbi: "It is hard to imagine how the Duke of Edinburgh, who has never been exposed to the hard realities of colonialism, could speak authoritatively on Rhodesia." Added the East African...
Wilted Poppies. Encolpius opens the book with a scabrous philippic against "modern" education, sounding a little like Bernard Shaw denouncing formal schooling. But Encolpius tires of this theme and soon becomes involved with his two comrades-in-arms in a sale of stolen goods. Later, the two older men quarrel...