Word: scum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the pot boiled in Iran last winter, the scum floated...
...mostly black section of the city. The Maoist group urged the Klansmen to attend. Taunted March Organizer Paul Bermanzohn: "We invite you and your two-bit punks to come out and face the wrath of the people." The handbill described the Klan as "the most treacherous scum element produced by the dying system of capitalism...
...this movie is to be believed, Maryland's largest city has a legal system that would make a police state seem appealing. The judges are all psychotic or perverts or worse; the lawyers are all self-serving hypocrites; the cops all regard suspects as "scum." When criminals go to jail-usually on trumped-up charges-they invariably get murdered shortly after incarceration. Indeed, if the American hero of Midnight Express had come from Baltimore, there would have been no reason for him to escape the Turkish prison and return home...
...strained his voice sounds like a parody of itself. The closest Dylan gets to his familiar tone is on the title track--the most political of the album's songs. But just when it sounds like the old Dylan, with angry lyrics about political ironies and human scum, Dylan starts singing about "slow train." Then you realize the slow train that's going to railroad all the sinners on Dylan's endless shit-list, is Jesus himself. He's going to fix us all, just as soon as the second coming rounds the bend...
...Cartoon History of United States Foreign Policy, 1776-1976 by the editors of the Foreign Policy Association (Morrow; $4.95). Including Low's classic of Hitler and Stalin bowing to each other: "The scum of the earth, I believe"; "The bloody assassin of the workers, I presume...