Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hooked lemmings will drown themselves in spite of all our frantic efforts to save them, thus canceling some of the population explosion, while the other 50%, "squares" too smart to kill themselves on dope, will survive to run the country...
Politics is, in fact, the field in which many blacks place their highest hopes. Perhaps the best example of the emerging black politician is Julian Bond, whose cool style charms both blacks and whites even as he assails white racism in blunt terms. Tough and smart, he has used his local position as a member of the Georgia legislature to achieve national prominence as a hall-packing speaker. A less glamorous but no less aggressive politician is Charles Evers, one of a growing number of black officials in small Southern towns. In Fayette, Miss., Evers has refused to yield before...
HOROVITZ sees the Chicago 7 trial as a kind of theatre, with its emphasis on role-playing, or at least he sees Jerry Rubin as an entertainter. "He is a smart guy when he says things like, 'Fuck is the only word we've got because no one will print it and no cop will say it in a courtroom.' But he's silly when he says the revolution is sex and music. If that's all it is, I've had that revolution and emerged victoriously. His sense of theatre is fantastic. He writes good material for himself. Jerry...
...your problems (Greenwich and all that) because I get calls from two-hundred little madras-commuting-blond-Nazi-God-bless-America mice like you every week. I pulled my ass up from New Jersey. That's right. New Jersey. Not Newark either so don't get any smart ideas." Then follow jokes about Montclair, paranoia, penis-envy. On one hand, it must be cunning to hear rats talk this way in an over-sized nursery. On the other, the lines exploit the old convention of laughing at the words "elephant," "banana," "belly dancer" and "Beverly Hills-men-tality...
...Perry Mason titles and 15 works of nonfiction, Gardner produced 29 Lam-Cool books under the pseudonym A. A. Fair. All Grass Isn't Green-to be published next week -will be the last in the series, which features the exploits of Donald Lam, a small, smart legman for Bertha Cool, a plump, fortyish female private...