Word: scandalizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months, like dripping from a leaky faucet, the rumors dribbled out of the Justice Department: at the next go-round between Bernard Goldfine and the Federal Government, sensation would be heaped upon scandal. For accepting Goldfine's vicuna coat, paid-up hotel bills, and other expensive gifts, onetime Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams had long since paid the price of banishment from public life. Now, went the reports, the Justice Department was prepared to lower the boom on other politicians on the gift list of the Massachusetts textile and real estate millionaire...
Actually the scandal started 180 years ago, when a French artillery general, Pierre-Ambroise Franqois Choderlos de Laclos. published a novel that seriously proposed and wittily elaborated a science of seduction, a yoga of the boudoir. The book survives as an unholy missal of impudicity, a small black classic that, in literary opinion, excuses its sins with its skill. Three years ago. Director Roger Vadim (And God Created Woman) announced his intention to make a movie of it in modern dress. As one man. the powerful Society of Men of Letters rose to protest an artistic crime quite as heinous...
...will also be popular abroad. The rest of the world can scarcely be expected to leap to the aid of a nation whose brutal treatment of Angola is an international scandal. With Portugal's repression in mind, no decent person will step forward to say what is, after all, the truth: that Goa is not Angola...
Crookery. "The scandal of prosperity," as the Daily Mail calls Britain's housing shortage, stems from years of shortsighted planning and faulty economics. In big industrial cities, factories and office buildings have been allowed to gobble up scarce land in residential areas-and tighten the squeeze by funneling in millions of new citizens. Already overbuilt London, where postwar planners predicted a drop in population, has gained 1,400,000 new residents (total: 8,100,000) in 15 years. More than 100,000 London families are waiting for subsidized low-income housing, which, ironically, is "under-occupied," since a family...
...twelve years since City Council Candidate Barry Goldwater led it into office against a scandal-spotted Democratic administration, Phoenix's staunchly conservative, nonpartisan Charter Government has cleaned up the city's fabled old gambling and vice rings and won at least 50 civic awards for its efficient ways. With that kind of record, Charter Government should have waltzed to re-election this year. Instead, Phoenix's Mayor Samuel Mardian Jr. and his incumbent city councilmen found themselves in a bitter fight over an improbable, implausible issue. The charge: that Charter Government's candidates-as well...