Word: strident
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Little Tin Box. Yet for all his wily grandeur, the Governor always landed on his feet. The charges against him somehow got dropped in time for him to run for office again (including twice, unsuccessfully, for President). His strident anti-Communism-plus the 30,000 state troopers at his command-won him a place in the 1964 revolution that overthrew Jango Goulart. True enough, he had a few bad moments when the reform-bent military regime started out with a purge of corrupt politicians, but his name never appeared on the purge lists. Friends among the top brass managed...
...Scenarist William Rose, working from a novel by Nathaniel Benchley, seem too anxious, or too unsubtle, to sound the depths of a delightfully quirky human comedy. Instead they try too often for ding-dong farce, calling on a corps of hard-sell comedians to transform the townfolk into strident cartoons. Jonathan Winters as an addled police officer, Ben Blue as an irrelevant drunk, and Paul Ford as a sword-swinging Legionnaire are the chief offenders, since their familiar broad comedy bits beget feeble satire of Birchite fear and hysteria. This seasonable breach of security is well worth the risks, though...
...other hand, he continued, in a thinly veiled critique of Fulbright's power-is-arrogance thesis: "Strident emotionalism in the pursuit of truth, no matter how disguised in the language of wisdom, is harmful to public policy -just as harmful as self-righteousness in the application of power. The responsible intellectual who moves between his campus and Washington knows above all that his task is, in the language of the current generation, 'to cool it'-to bring what my generation called 'not heat but light' to public affairs...
Died. Dr. Mathilde Ludendorff, 89, bizarre German psychiatrist, famed throughout Europe in the early 1900s for her free-swinging approach to sex in such books as Erotic Rebirth, who later turned strident nationalist, blaming Germany's World War I defeat on Masons, Jesuits and, most particularly, Jews, and toured the country in flowing robes embroidered with Nordic symbols, preaching hate and accusing Hitler of being too far left; after pneumonia; in Tutzing, Germany...
...peeves of Bill Buckley's conservative National Review is Linus Pauling, the Nobel-prizewinning biochemist who espouses no end of peace causes and regularly attacks U.S. foreign policy. In a strident article in 1962, the Review accused Pauling of "acting as megaphone for Soviet policy" and lending his "name, energy, voice and pen to one after another Soviet-serving enterprise." A second Review article took note of the number of libel suits brought by Pauling and derided the "brazen attempts at intimidation of the free press by one of the nation's leading fellow travelers...