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...these are strong opinions expressed about a strong President, in true American style. Lyndon Johnson, who in private expresses equally brusque and pungent comments about friends as well as enemies, can hardly take exception to what the American people say about him. He has a laudable desire to be President of all the people. Yet for a practiced and consummate politician, at times he has a curious compulsion to appear nonpolitical. No matter what the rest of his tenure brings, no matter the final verdict of history, he has so far achieved part of his ambition: the people consider...
Fact was, millions of Britons shared the Duke's view of the Rhodesian problem, which until recently was also official policy of Harold Wilson's government. And few really wanted to muzzle the royal consort. "Over a period of years, he has succeeded in being pungent, constructive, and to the point on an exceptionally wide range of topics," commented the London Times. "The nation would be the loser if any serious attempt were made to impose some constitutional silence upon the Duke...
Kenneth Stampp, a skillful and pungent professor of history at the University of California, comes at the end of a line of revisionist scholars who have discredited Dunning's interpretation. Their origins go back to the 1930's, when immigrants and minority groups were at last gaining access to political power, and when the Supreme Court was beginning to interpret the 14th amendment as a defense of civil rather than economic liberties. They have re-examined the conventional assumptions about Reconstruction, and have tried to resurrect the Radical Republicans as visionaries and idealists who believed in the potentialities...
...funnies are becoming funny again," says Comics Researcher David Manning White of Boston University. "It is a verbal humor and it sticks. It hurts a little bit." Adds Al Capp, who has produced some pungent humor of his own-and added Lower Slobbovia to popular geography-in the hillbilly world of Li'I Abner: "The new comics are the real Black Humorists." In Walt Kelly's Pogo, a group of peculiarly human denizens of Okefinokee Swamp -a cigar-chewing alligator, a bespectacled owl, a turtle sporting a derby-play with words, con one another, and offer the only...
...furor was created not by "secret gases" but by three common riot-control gases that the U.S. has been supplying to South Vietnamese forces since 1962: CN (chloroacetophenone), a fragrant-smelling tear gas that also irritates the skin, loses effectiveness in about three minutes; CS (o-chlorobenzalmalononi-trile), a pungent agent developed by the British, of all people, that stings the eyes, causes chest pains, choking and vomiting for up to 15 minutes; and DM (Adamsite), a peppery-smelling gas that causes diarrhea, chest and head pains, and lasts up to two hours...