Word: slandered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...order; the Democrats have voted for Nixon's anticrime legislation. What about national unity, he asked. What about racial tension, the environment, economic problems? "There are those who seek to turn our common distress to partisan advantages, not by offering better solutions but with empty threat and malicious slander...
...scheduled to return home. Huessy was arrested in East Berlin. Eight months later, he was charged on three counts: espionage, trying to help East Germans escape, and provocative criticism of the state. Acquitted on the two more serious charges, he was convicted on the state criticism charge. His alleged slander was that the Communist regime would collapse if Moscow decided to pull its 20 divisions out of East Germany...
...National YAF board and Arizona chairman, a man with a brief, tight-lipped smile that never quite conceals the suspicious glances he shoots around him, delivered the introduction for the former presidential candidate with complete earnestness: "... He was only defeated by the vulgar, vile, and, yes, effeminate weapons of slander and semantical distortion...
Administration wants repression." Well that's either slander or stupidity. No citizen who respects the law need fear anything from this Government. No Administration is more committed to the civil rights of every American. But the President's definition of civil rights encompasses the right of black Americans to be secure in the central city, the right of small businessmen to be free of violence at the hands of drug addicts, and the right of women to be free to walk the streets and parks without being attacked or molested by hoodlums and thugs. Clearly those civil rights...
Wolfe notes not only the rise of the in-vite-a-Panther-to-cocktails phase of Radical Chic, but what is probably its fall. The party at Lenny's was followed by a scathing editorial in the New York Times. Slander would be preferable to Wolfe's compassion for the traumatized Bernsteins. "It was unbelievable," he writes of Lenny's reaction to the post-party furor. "Cultivated people, intellectuals, were characterizing him as 'a masochist' and-and this was the really cruel part-as 'the David Susskind of American Music...