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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sometimes I wish I were a dictator ... A ruler, a strong man, a titan ... With a ruthless grasp on power and an iron grip on the helm of government ... But loved ... The law is my law the people are my people, whomever I conquer remains conquered. Premier Bernard, King Bernard, Czar Bernard ... Boy ... Then Could I meet girls...

Author: By Fred Gardner, | Title: Jules Feiffer | 2/23/1962 | See Source »

Attacks on the "machine" are not a new phenomenon in HYRC politicking. Last year Phillips blasted the "ABC machine" as "ruthless, vicious, and unethical...

Author: By R.andrew Beyer, | Title: Williams Attacks HYRC 'Machine' | 2/17/1962 | See Source »

Pietro Annigoni's ruthless brush speaks silently and shockingly of the physical toll a man gives in the presidency. Shall the Man of the Year now be haltered by denial of the help he asked for in his Inaugural...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 19, 1962 | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

Both Guy's place and his personal battle grew increasingly ambiguous. The Halberdiers teemed with weird Waugh characters-from one-eyed, ruthless Brigadier Ritchie-Hook through Trimmer, an ex-hairdresser on the Aquitania. to the knowledgeable ass, Apthorpe, whose portable jakes provides Waugh with an outlet for numerous excursions into scatology. Hapless Guy inadvertently kills him at the end with the gift of a bottle of whisky when Apthorpe was suffering from fever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Class War | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

...himself in private scourgings in the desert to toughen himself. "Pain," wrote Lawrence, "was a solvent, a cathartic, almost a decoration to be fairly worn." Lawrence confessed that under the Turkish whiplashes and bayonets "a delicious warmth, probably sexual, was swelling through me." This realization converted Lawrence into the ruthless sadist who machine-gunned prisoners in cold blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tortured Hero | 12/1/1961 | See Source »

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