Word: provocateur
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...Harvard is predominantly underground," Harry told us. To support his statement he indicated the power conduit (a metal pipe of modest size) and the telephone lines (several thick black cables). It seemed to us that the whole service system of Harvard was also quite vulnerable to sabotage: an agent provocateur loose in the Tunnel could easily paralyze the University preparatory to leading a junta against it. We asked Harry whether unauthorized persons might wander in. "Rarely," he answered. "Occasionally, an outside contractor working in the Tunnel leaves a door open by mistake and a curious undergraduate comes through...
...many clergymen believe that the job of the priest is to be a prophet rather than a provocateur, and that his divine calling involves much more than helping Negroes win equality. They argue that Christianity should persuade rather than make peremptory demands since, says one New Orleans Protestant minister, "unless you win men by love, you never really win them...
...Yale) Buckley Jr.. 36, affects the role of an ideological provocateur, inciting arguments before the largest possible crowd. But except for an occasional appearance on TV-once with Jack Paar-Buckley has been forced to jab at liberals ("powerful but decadent'') and other targets within the confines of lecture halls or through his own little magazine...
...which are similar to censorship. Yet the library does not really censor. It places "questionable" materials in the Cage for legal and protective reasons. There are certain Federal and state laws prohibiting distribution of erotic material to minors. The University acts in such situations to avoid being considered agent provocateur. In addition it proscribes literature which would be subject to mutilations if left on the open shelf. Included in this category are Esquire, certain French journals, and the more prominent photography magazines...
...lengthily over Radio Moscow, the corn-belt commissar cockily sounded off on art, literature, ideology -and Georgy Malenkov. Khrushchev charged that the man he ordered off to central Asian exile last July had "fallen under the complete influence of the sworn enemy of the people and the party, the provocateur Beria," and become the late secret-police boss's "shadow and tool." Said Khrushchev: "Holding a high position in the party and state, Comrade Malenkov not only did not hold Stalin back, but with great skill made use of the weaknesses and habits of Stalin during the last years...