Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...several Senators indicated that they either did not want to vote for Haynsworth or had serious doubts about him. The legislators were angry at being put on the spot because of the negligence of Attorney General John Mitchell. Mitchell had recommended Haynsworth to Nixon. They felt that after the scandal-sodden resignation of Abe Fortas, any Republican nominee for the court must be completely clean. Mitchell had checked on Haynsworth, but not enough...
This dramatization of John Galsworthy's sequence novel of a large, nouveau-riche English family begins in 1879, and carries them through 50 years - and 26 weekly installments - of scandal, true love, success and misunderstanding. The series, with Kenneth More, Eric Porter and Nyree Dawn Porter, became a "national obsession" in Britain, where it first played...
...like that of the American hippies or Dutch Provos, because society can easily contain the marginal revolts of individuals. The only recourse was a frontal attack against society by relusing all legitimacy and doing the illegal. The focal point was direct action, violent and spectacular confrontation through personal insult, scandal, provocation, violent street demonstrations, and breaking of police lines. The aim was to ridicule...
Leading Questions. The worst was yet to come. A London scandal sheet reported that the firm tentatively contacted -but not actually hired-to do the "scientific" matching was a fly-by-night, husband-wife outfit operating out of a one-room office next to a fish-and-chips shop, apparently without even the benefit of a computer. The firm's "managing director" offered samples of questionnaires he had used in previous matchmaking schemes. Typical inquiries included: "Do you consider yourself sexy?" "Do you consider sex important?" "Have you a very strong sexual urge?" "Are you against premarital relationships...
Eugene Marais was an Afrikaner best remembered by his countrymen as one of their early poets, but he was also a journalist, self-taught naturalist and morphine addict. Such fame as he enjoyed outside Africa came mainly from the scandal caused when famous Belgian Writer Maurice Maeterlinck stole a lengthy excerpt of Marais's Afrikaans text. The Soul of the White Ant, and published it under his own name. Marais shot himself in 1936. Shortly after, his complete study of white ants, i.e., termites, and a slim, chatty book of reminiscences about baboons were published in Europe. Marais...