Word: piggishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even to some Frenchmen, the De Gaulle-Debre policy is beginning to appear piggish. Reflecting widespread sentiment, Cartoonist Jacques Faizant last week portrayed France as a piggy bank stuffed with gold instead of the truffles that most Frenchmen would prefer. The Paris daily Le Monde bluntly labeled the French accumulation of gold as "sterile stockpiling...
...mother (Rosita de Triana) simmers in sad-eyed frustration. The son (Robert Gentile) tries to do an honest job as a grocery boy, but street gang punks torment and entangle him. The daughter (Greta Margos), a lissome, raven-haired beauty, gets work in a garment-factory loft, but the piggish foreman makes her earn her overtime pay with bodily favors. Her "promotion" is to become a call girl for out-of-town buyers. As the shady manufacturer who employs her, Kenny Delmar is uproariously funny with his seduction pad and patter...
...vehemently berates. Might we not query Mr. Chase as to how he accounts for Senator Kennedy's vote in favor of the St. Lawrence Seaway. . . . Or let us consider the Senator's prophetic call for Algerian self-determination--to whose selfish interests was he pandering then, all those "piggish, self-centered" Algerian voters in Boston? . . . Not to mention the Senator's courageous stand on the National Defense Education Act's inexcusable loyalty oath and affidavit provisions--undoubtedly brought about by pressure from "Boss Pusey...
...That was what it had come down to. To restore the balance of power in Eurasia, you have to lick the enemy by persuading 5,369 Vermonters to vote your way instead of his..." The voter is a piggish, self-centered person; and those who pander to him with farm supports, raises in Social Security, veterans' benefits and laws allowing the unions to do what they want are only strengthening this characteristic. -Theodore Chase...