Word: scoundrel
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...publishing scoundrel!" That is what the imperious old woman in Henry James' The Aspern Papers hisses at her ambitious lodger when she finds him snooping through her yellowed letters for his own scholarly endeavors. To the old woman, he revealed himself as the lowest form of life. Her reaction is not unlike that of Nancy Reagan and her husband to the publication last week of Donald Regan's For the Record. Like the woman in the story, the Reagans acted as if betrayed by someone whose loyalty they had depended on, as though they were the innocent victims...
...preacher' s most spectacular performance -- a public confession following a private admission of meeting prostitutes along a motel strip near New Orleans. So it' s scoundrel time again for Pray TV, a raucous realm that was stumbling toward recovery after ptl and a disastrous 1987. At stake: a $150 million- a- year empire and Evangelicalism' s tattered public image...
Strapped with such ideological baggage, Bork now must claim that as a Supreme Court justice he would at times feel bound to uphold decisions he criticized as an academic. Then again, his equivocations last week under the klieg lights could simply be the last refuge of a jurisprudential scoundrel seeking confirmation before a largely hostile Senate...
...weaknesses of an extended emotional purge: intensity, authenticity, flashes of black humor, a tendency to camp on obsessions and nurse the morose. Le Carre's job is not easy. In order finally to put his father to rest with forgiveness and love, he must first disinter the scoundrel, who died in 1975. Draped in the same checkered past as Ronald Cornwell, Rickie Pym makes darting appearances as an amoral charmer whose lies and bad debts foreshadow the more convoluted betrayals of his son Magnus...
...super-hecklers thought that the hapless audience might have been persuaded by the scoundrel, so they took it upon themselves to protect the innocents. This kind of political elitism has no place in a free society with mass education, let alone in a university...