Word: politicians
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...Rhodesians have blamed the opposition on intimidation by a black organization called the African National Council. The government has arrested more than 1,500 people in the past six weeks. It has placed in detention without trial four well-known critics of Smith's regime-two blacks, African Politician Josiah Chinamano and his wife, and two whites, Southern Rhodesia's onetime Prime Minister Garfield Todd and his daughter Judith. Last week the regime bowed to British pressure by transferring the Todds from prison to house arrest on their ranch near Shabani; it also moved the Chinamanos to house...
...made him "think of euthanasia." The Rev. John Spong, the esteemed rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church and a cousin of Democratic U.S. Senator William Spong Jr., took to the pulpit last week to label Carwile's remarks as "the cheap shot of an insensitive politician." The councilman was unrepentant. Dismissing Spong as an "ecclesiastical lickspittle," he added: "When I look at some spiritually anemic preachers, I think of embalming fluid." Inevitably, Carwile's tasteless demagoguery led to a sick joke. The councilman was not being macabre, the snicker went, he was just trying to drum...
Though puns may be used to political advantage-or disadvantage-punning has traditionally been more the farm of the artist than the playground of the politician. By punning, which probably derives from the Italian puntiglio (fine point), the writer grows ideas as well as wit. Aristophanes punned, with scatological exuberance, and so did Homer and Cicero. What was occasional in the classicists was fecund nature to Shakespeare. Because he had to play to the galleries, his plays were par for the coarse, brimming with such verbal pratfalls as "Discharge yourself of our company, Pistol." But Shakespeare could also buff...
...Richard Nixon prepares to fly to Peking this week, he is reading, among other things, some of the writings of the remarkable poet-politician who will be his host. The haunting, prophetic verse quoted above, written in 1956, is included along with the eight thick black volumes of political and cultural notes that were put together by Henry Kissinger to brief the President for his historic mission to China. A year ago, the very idea that Nixon, or any other U.S. Chief Executive, would visit China on a good-will mission would have seemed absurd. But not only the mountain...
...Others prefer to describe him as the "Kwame Nkrumah of Newfoundland." Until he retired last week from the province's Liberal Party leadership after 23 years of almost absolute power, Smallwood was one of the Western Hemisphere's most benign demagogues and Canada's most entertaining politician. As he often put it: "I'm sort of a tourist attraction...