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...cynic you. You pulverized potato, you spineless spinach, you mustachioed pistachio, who do you think you are? What gives you the right, let me see your papers, who gave you permission, where is your petition, you have no commission, I bet I know your mission. It's an ill wind brings you into town, and now with your new gown I guess it's legal...
...cynic you. You pulverized potato, you spineless spinach, you mustachioed pistachio, who do you think you are? What gives you the right, let me see your papers, who gave you permission, where is your petition, you have no commission, I bet I know your mission. It's an ill wind brings you into town, and now with your new gown I guess it's legal...
Along with its legislative record, each Congress writes its own short hand label: innovative or standpat, Micawberish or Scroogian, spineless or rebellious. The 90th's first session fell somewhere in between on each count. It reflected rather too faithfully the national condition of confusion and contention over Viet Nam and the urban crisis. Unable to change the course of either, its mood was often one of angry frustration. The fight over the proposed tax increase and efforts to curb federal spending flavored the entire session, giving it a bitter taste-but no tax bill and only marginal savings...
...termed most administrators "stupid, misinformed, and spineless"--the result, he said, of being "well-meaning and devoted." The failure of Berkeley officials to present the real cause and standing of the 1964 Free Speech Movement was one instance he mentioned. Lang said that national newspapers had misrepresented the Movement's structure by claiming communist influence. "The blame," he stated, "must be on the administrators who allowed that to occur...
...Neither the U.N. nor any great power has the right to dictate the peace to a victorious Israel. The spineless withdrawal of U.N. troops was in large part responsible for the conflict, as was Russia's arming of Egypt and Syria. The U.S., whose foreign policy has made a sacred cow out of the status quo everywhere in the world, did little to help Israel. Those who think the Arab-Israeli confrontation is over are living in a dream world. Nasser will be back. Syria will be back. And if Israel has a right to exist, it also...