Word: puppeteered
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...Choice. What he has been is remarkable in political history. Both of his Negro predecessors in the Senate went to Washington as symbols of Yankee vindictiveness against the South during the Reconstruction era?and both were puppet politicians. The first, an itinerant preacher named Hiram Rhodes Revels, was picked in 1870 by the Mississippi legislature, then dominated by carpetbaggers and Negroes, to fill the Senate seat once occupied by Confederate President Jefferson Davis. The other was Blanche Kelso Bruce, an imposing mulatto, who was sent to the Senate in 1875, also from Mississippi...
PINOCCHIO (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The Prince Street Players bring that wooden puppet, Pinocchio, back to boy again...
...made for its representation in a civilian government. This would involve concessions on both sides, for North Vietnam has insisted that the future of the South should be based wholly on the N.L.F.'s program, and the U.S. has maintained that the N.L.F. is nothing more than a puppet of North Vietnam...
...social-security system and a labor code, built Central America's best road and hospital systems and brought the country its first real economic and political stability. When he was assassinated in 1956, his oldest son Luis took over, later putting power in the hands of two successive puppet Presidents. This year Tachito decided to try to take what he practically considered his birthright by running for President himself...
...Hand. Czechoslovakia's Jiří Trnka is the Chagall of cinema. In his 18 puppet films (A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Emperor's Nightingale), he has bodied forth in speaking forms and singing colors a rich world of the spirit that for almost two decades has floated like a magical island in the grey sea of groupthink called Communism. In this tiny (19 minutes) but weighty puppet picture, Trnka (pronounced Trnka) has come right out with a wry but obviously heartfelt statement of the rights and wrongs of man in a totalitarian society...