Word: provocateur
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what the minister may do, what will he be during the next few decades? As material existence becomes more abundant for more and more men, the minister will have to become more and more the guide, energizer and catalyst?the "playing coach," in one cleric's term, the agent provocateur in another...
...organizer who plots a theoretically infallible payroll robbery. But harassed by police and chivied by a disciple of nonviolence (Al Freeman Jr.), Jason seems cursed from the opening. When the robbery erupts into blood and death, it is only a formal ratification of doom. Jason's descent from provocateur to fugitive and his ultimate Tristan and Isolde death scene with a white chick (Joanna Shimkus) are even stagier and more predictable...
...doing this?" asked a woman in the fast-swelling crowd. Speaking in hesitant Russian, 24-year-old New Yorker Vicky Rovere answered: "Because of my conscience." It was not a satisfactory answer. Another woman shouted "Provocateur!" and a third tried to lead Vicky away. Most of the leaflets were torn up. Within five minutes the police arrived, and Vicky tossed her remaining leaflets high in the air. Immediately, she was punched hard in the stomach by an elderly man. "That," she said, "was not very nice of you." Across the square, Andrew Papworth, also 24, and sporting a T shirt...
...voyeured, by an unnamed narrator. In the hazy New-Novel fashion, the exact locale is uncertain: it may be Autun, or it may be Auxerre. And the events described may have happened or they may have been invented. As the narrator puts it: "I see myself as an agent provocateur or a double agent, first on one side-that of truth-and then on the other...
...Sulzberger, disguised as a distinguished journalist, tries to conceal his identity as an international provocateur." And even the conservative daily Kathimerini suggested that the King should refrain from talking to" foreign journalists. Sulzberger, however, was not fazed: "I'm never really too surprised at anything that happens in Greece," he said. "They are an imaginative people and take their politics seriously...