Word: sellout
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...black American was so widely honored in his lifetime; yet segregationists denounced Martin Luther King Jr. as a Communist and worse, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover once publicly branded him a liar, and militant blacks eventually came to see him as a "sellout" to the white Establishment. Now a black writer has added yet another-and unlikely-epithet to those fastened on the assassinated leader. In a new book, The King God Didn't Save (Coward-McCann, Inc.; $5.95), Novelist John Williams (Night Song, The Man Who Cried I Am) calls King a failure...
...plump, then squatted as if to take root. Still, all was not lost: vamps stayed high-cut and flattering, and flimsy straps crossed ankles and insteps without looking like tourniquets. But then came clogs. Wooden-soled and styled like gravy boats, the Swedish imports and U.S. copies did a sellout business last year. After sport shoes went clumpy, it was only a matter of time before all footwear fell into the same ungainly step. The time...
...until he reached a shrill, unintelligible climax which would be drowned out in the applause of the moderate group, and the angry cries of the PL members. He said PL did not want to align with any sell outs, and then accused PL of feeling that everyone was a sellout except themselves...
When peace comes through appeasement and capitulation that sellout is intellectual treason. A concise and clear set of rules for campus conduct should be established, transmitted to incoming freshmen, and enforced enforced-with immediate expulsion the penalty for serious violations. The rule of reason is the guiding principle in an academic community, and those who apply the rule of force have no business there. It is folly for universities confronted with their current crisis in our turbulent times to open their doors to thousands of patently unqualified students. [President Robben] Fleming [of the University of Michigan, who acceded to black...
...time. No matter, really, that Weiland, a flabby 232 lbs., had fairly waddled around the ring, that at one point he had all but apologized to Urtain for landing a punch, that after he had been counted out he bounced back to his feet. What did matter to the sellout crowd of 13,000 at Madrid's Sports Palace was that Spain had its first European heavyweight champion in 37 years?and at last Spanish sport had a Numero Uno to lead the nation out of the doldrums of bad bulls and mediocre matadors...