Word: politicism
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A Jules Feiffer cartoon is an act of aggression camouflaged by humor. Feiffer is a satirical sniper who drills lethal little holes in the feverish body politic. In security, hostility, urban hysteria are both his targets and his weapons, and all his cartoons are Little Murders, as he has titled...
She does better when she is not trying to be a female Tom Wolfe. Her new biweekly New York column, "The City Politic," usually provides something extra, as when she discussed the city's unions and concluded, "Nothing's simple anymore. We'll just have to distinguish...
"They twitter and sing," wrote Novelist Graham Greene of the women of South Viet Nam. In their diaphanous silk ao dais, they can readily appear as delicate and inconsequential as so many songbirds. In fact, Vietnamese women are birds of a very different feather. Heiresses of an ancient tradition of...
Sir: I am satisfied that Nixon will win with his approach, and this pleases me. Nixon is not a superhuman, but he does think in a logical manner. Then too, a complete turnover usually exposes some of the maggots in the body politic.
Sadly, the drums and fifes of the right's march drown out the very voices that might contribute most to a conciliation of the nation's conflicts. The problems confronting America today all demand hard thinking and constructive debate. They will not be solved by the nightstick or...