Word: smears
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...legal issues aside, the protests seem to have been prompted by a feeling that the travel ban stands as a patently hypocritical smear on the face of the Free World. In an article in the Brandeis Justice, Martin Nicolaus, one of the fifty-nine students, tells of meeting an East German technician on the flight from Prague to Havana. The German didn't understand why Americans had to fly to Prague to get to Havana. When the travel ban was explained to him, he smiled understandingly; "Ah, it is clear. It is as if I wanted to travel to West...
Vorster's virulent smear, given great prominence in the South African press, is probably a prelude to banning NUSAS or its leaders...
Many persons are also intimidated by Vorster's Red-smear campaign against such groups as the Liberal Party and NUSAS. These bodies are still too respectable to be banned out-right. But the smears are clearly directed at preparing public opinion to accept a ban on the leaders of these groups or of the groups themselves...
...faceless image molders who, in the end, made the Pygmalion of legend seem by comparison a mass of clumsy thumbs. Under close and improving direction, her famous walk developed from something crudely virginal into something profanely sophisticated. Some unknown Corot reduced the red of her lips from a massive smear to a spot in a breathtaking landscape. Her hair, sprayed and sculpted a thousand times, softened down into a pangloss of wishful thinking, making nature say uncle...
...senses that the Actors Studio has not entirely prepared him for the responsibility. He attempts an important voice, but most of the time he sounds like a small boy in a bathtub imitating Winston Churchill. He ventures a diplomatic brush, but his upper lip produces merely a promising smear. He sports an expensive cutaway, but the more he tries to be elegant the more he looks like a stevedore at his daughter's wedding. Through the stuffed shirt peeps the T shirt, and at his most ambassadorial moments Marlon is unmistakably a man who longs to scratch. The customers...