Word: polecat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This description joined the list of unflattering epithets -among them "chronic liar," "journalistic polecat" and s.o.b.-that have already been hurled at Pearson without puncturing his hide. But the News-Miner's phrase hit him smack in the reputation-or so the columnist claimed in a $176,000 libel suit. In his own defense, Pearson produced almost half a dozen character witnesses, among them the gentleman farmer whose 499 acres are near the Pearson property in Maryland: US Senator Wayne Morse...
Sartre plunges earthily to the center of all this confusion. "Seeking excitement and pleasure," he explains, "Genet starts enveloping himself in his images as a polecat envelops itself in its odor." Darling Daintyfoot and Divine are projections of Genet's imagination, conjured up to excite himself as he lay in his prison cell in 1942. Genet began to record these autoerotic visions on the paper that the prison provided its inmates to manufacture paper bags. A guard burned the writing. Genet began again. The final result was Our Lady of the Flowers...
...Polecat." Not overly concerned whether they are in or out of the club, South Africa's leaders simply went on buying modern weapons, including French jet fighters, to crush any possible black rebellion (this year South Africa's defense budget will reach a record high of $180 million). Reporting on "sabotage schools" in neighboring black countries, Justice Minister Vorster said: "We are dealing with stupid people who are power-drunk. But we are ready for whatever they are planning against South Africa." Said Afrikaaner Student Leader Tertius Delport, referring to the country's growing international isolation...
...that he had been misquoted -but a transcript of his remarks snowed that he had sure enough said all those unkind things. His denial made some Africans even madder. In Southern Rhodesia the Bulawayo Chronicle, which first defended Ellender's right of free speech, now called him a "polecat" who lacks the "courage of his convictions...
...polecat speech, Andersen complained that his fellow Congressmen had been "shying off" since the Billie Sol case broke. "Come and say hello to H. Carl Andersen," he pleaded. "Come and shake my hand." Afterward, some kindly Congressmen did go up to him and say hello and shake his hand. But Andersen's political future had been heavily clouded by the Estes case, and he recognized the fact by announcing that, after winning twelve House terms as a Republican, he would run for re-election this fall as an "independent" rather than risk defeat in a G.O.P. primary...