Word: philippice
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Informed of the Supreme Court's decision upholding state laws against obscenity (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Author Philip (Generation of Vipers') Wylie, 55, declared himself unimpressed, fired off a Wylian philippic at the Great American Gaminess: "Are we going to stop publication of the bust measurements of movie stars...
All told, it was one of the most effective performances in Rab Butler's 26 years in Parliament, and topped Gaitskell's Philippic of the week before. The House rejected the censure motion (329-261). Yet a forensic victory in the Commons was only a beginning, and Rab...
Then, last May, "American Legion" ran an expose entitled "You Should Know About This Book." The book was a Mentor Pocket edition called "Good Reading." The magazine warns us that "unknown even to the publishers, some poisonous pages were slipped into this book, of which two million copies have been...
"On recent visits to America I found it depressing that attacks on Communism should take up so much of the energy of Catholic speakers and writers. It was almost impossible to hear a speech from any priest or prelate in which Communism was not the dominant theme. I once saw...
* Hence the word philippic.