Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...melange of revolutionary Marxist splinter groups who banded together a few weeks before the election. Having rendered their name a misnomer by running for and winning six seats, the extraparliamentarians now call themselves Proletarian Democrats. The most prominent of the new in-house revolutionaries is P.D. Deputy Luciana Castellina, sharp-witted feminist journalist. This constellation of new Deputies may not make Parliament any more workable, but at least it should add a little luster to Italy's tarnished political image...
...process continues. The New Jersey legislature, recalling its sharp conflicts with the now arrested Loyalist Governor William Franklin, last week adopted a new constitution that provides for a bicameral legislature to elect a relatively powerless Governor. Only 26 of the 65 legislators voted for the measure (30 abstained and 9 opposed), however, and even they insisted that the document would be null and void in case of a reconciliation with Britain...
Opposition newspapers, whose circulation has increased because of war news, are equally sharp. The St. James's Chronicle (circ. 2,000) calls the North ministry the most "obstinately cruel and diabolically wicked" ever to inhabit the earth. The Kentish Gazette daringly writes of the "corrupt influence of the Crown"-the King is traditionally immune from such criticism-and says that "our brave American fellow-subjects are not yet corrupted, but gloriously stand up in defense of their undoubted rights and liberties." In a pamphlet that has sold 60,000 copies, an almost unheard-of number, Dr. Richard Price...
...conviction that a Government big enough to run things is a Government big enough to threaten us. These became applause lines just as carefully prepared and as essentially empty as Joe Penner's "Wanna buy a duck?" once was. Only occasionally did a reporter's sharp question throw a candidate off balance. (Reporters live in the conviction, which is not universally valid, that anyone's unguarded remarks more truly reflect his views than responses he has time to think...
There is a sharp aesthetic contrast between Radio Man and The Sheik, who hands out in front of Harvard Book Store. Radio Man is huge. The Sheik is short; Radio Man is hairless. The Sheik's beard hangs down to his knees; Radio Man is into music, The Sheik is primarily verbal. In fact, it is rumored that The Sheik was a candidate for tenure at the University at one time, and never fully recovered from being turned down...