Word: smites
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Priapic Pranks. However, a rich lad's life is governed not only at home but also in a high-class English boarding school where golfing and keeping one's thoughts and actions dirt-free are more important than education. As the housemaster says, "When smuttiness comes smite it. And here we smite smut. Let there be no question about that. Our little golfers knock it for a loop...
...best sequence is a short scene with Stokely Carmichael, whose cool is chilling as he smilingly maintains that mankind's only hope is for the colored races to smite the white devils like avenging angels. Later, a narrator weeps for Viet Nam-based U.S. soldiers, mostly of "Calvinistic background and Omaha upbringing," whose first sexual encounters are "almost certainly" homosexual in the fag bars of Saigon. (The U.S. has plenty of problems in Saigon, but the fag bar is not one of them...
...Whose coauthor, Reed Smoot, inspired Ogden Nash's 1930 poem "Invocation": Senator Smoot (Republican, Ut.) Is planning a ban on smut. Oh root-ti-toot for Smoot of Ut. And his reverent occiput . . . Smite, Smoot, Be rugged and rough, Smut if smitten Is front-page stuff...
...left. Another right. The Bad Guy was giving Tony Curtis his lumps in a TV rerun of a forgettable flick called Flesh and Fury. Anybody could see that it was not over yet: Tony's curls were still neatly combed. Bravely, he rose from the floor to smite his opponent a mighty clout on the mandible - and cheers rang through the Los Angeles Dodgers' clubhouse at Chavez Ravine...
Major Dundee. On his own initiative, the fanatic U.S. Cavalry major recruits thieves, drunkards, and Confederate prisoners for a punitive mission against a band of Apaches who have kidnaped three children. Why? "I intend to smite the wicked," he declares...