Word: scoundrelism
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...didn't pursue that role at all effectively." Nevertheless, Smithies stresses American advisers' accomplishments in such areas as improving rice strains--"whatever side you're on politically, this was a useful thing," he says--and the importance of combating "the impression that everyone connected with Vietnam was a scoundrel...
...Giovanni: the Italian equivalent of Don Juan who, having seduced over 1000 women before the opera starts, goes on to seduce a few more before he's packed off to hell. Diaz says that he tries to portray this character as a glorious rebel rather than as a rank scoundrel, adding. "From a chauvinistic point of view you could say, look at all the women he made happy! Apparently he was an irresistible character--a terrific lover, a wonderful human being, at least for those few minutes or hours or days which he chose to spend with these assorted ladies...
...mainland activities published by Taiwan so perfectly fits its anti-Communist propaganda that it might have been manufactured by imaginative p.r. agents in Taipei. Stiil, Peking considers Taiwan's espionage serious enough to issue periodic warnings about the presence of spies. Recently Canton radio reported sabotage by a "scoundrel" in a gas plant and chastised the factory's deputy director for his lack of vigilance. Some visitors to China have been taken to prisons where they have seen "counterrevolutionaries" and other "enemies of the people"-many of them, presumably, guilty of working for the hated little island across...
...taught Russian literature at Quirn University. Transforming himself by an astounding feat of linguistic ability into a master of English, he began to turn out a second shelf of glittering novels, the most notorious of which, A Kingdom by the Sea, examined the perversion of a scoundrel carnally attracted to little girls...
...birth. His childhood in turn-of-the-century Oxford, Miss., was spent listening to Civil War tales told by old men who had been at Shiloh and Appomattox. He absorbed family pride indirectly from his illustrious great-grandfather Colonel William C. Falkner (as the name was then spelled), hero, scoundrel, founder of a railroad and writer who became the doomed, quixotic colonel of Sartoris in 1929. Blotner devotes 50 pages to the recitation of every known fact about the old colonel, forgetting that what history remembers and what Faulkner knew are different matters. Faulkner's South was a brooding...