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...Women's Lib a "dreaded disease." As for the theory of evolution, Archie tells his son-in-law Mike (Rob Reiner): "We didn't crawl out from under no rocks; we didn't have no tails, we didn't come from monkeys, you atheistic, pinko meathead...
...buddies, reunited for some mutual drinking and consolation. The joke is that under all their boasting and one-upmanship (Hawkins is in oil, Grabber builds planes, Grabber has one Rolls Royce, Hawkins has two) there is only a couple of scared men threatened by a world of "commy pinko cruddy bums." The fact that that last line is meant to get a knowing laugh should give you some idea of the complacency of the piece. See how the other half runs and thank you Lord that I'm not numbered among such sinners...
...Soviet agent, and a neurotic black astronaut who has not made his peace with the white world (an attitude the author finds entirely outrageous) goes mental while in moon orbit. The loudest noise to be heard is Drury rubbing his hands together as he exposes the pinko thinking of all those fluoridating reporters. "It was good to be engaged in a campaign against the government once more," a magazine journalist named Percy Mercy reflects. "It made a man feel right to be blackguarding his own country again...
...call the Union-Leader's political views reactionary would be an understatement. During the 1968 New Hampshire Presidential primary, the newspaper referred to McCarthy canvassers as "a bunch of punks led by a couple of pinko punks." The day after McCarthy's unexpected success in the primary, the Union-Leader draped its front page in black, to signify mourning...
...Essay [Dec. 5] said exactly what I have been trying verbally to crystallize for months. A little introspection by this country on its gut ills would do much toward world peace. Whoever promulgated the philosophy that any individual who questions the conduct and/or motives of his Government is unAmerican, pinko, etc., is in more trouble than he knows...