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...Critic Stephen Spender. An indignant committee of Nobel laureates called upon U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim to complain. Novelist Saul Bellow was so angry that he exploded at an international P.E.N. congress in Jerusalem last week: "They are stupid, ignorant, partisan. And I think they are a lot of swine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: The Boycott Backlash | 12/30/1974 | See Source »

...proceeded under the tightest security precautions in West Berlin's history. As 200 policemen guarded the courthouse against student demonstrators, security men with machine guns and Alsatian dogs patrolled the corridors. The defendants themselves sat in bullet-proof-glass enclosures-popping up occasionally to denounce the authorities as "swine" and "fascists." After Ulrike Meinhof took the witness stand and praised the freeing of Baader as "an outstanding example of urban guerrilla activity," few expected an acquittal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Guerrillas on Trial | 12/9/1974 | See Source »

Next in line, Milt Holt that swine, our tenderfoot...

Author: By Joy Horowitz, | Title: Joyless Notes | 11/18/1974 | See Source »

...diner; then for a few minutes he was a dinner. Ultimately he was incorporated into the cell structure of the sea serpent, a distinction he did not enjoy." Horses are "anachronisms less speedy, less beautiful, less efficient than the machines which have replaced them." The Gadarene swine are "food for sermons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Seduction by Syrinx | 7/22/1974 | See Source »

...Irish American host in New York said flatly that Sir Roger had become "mentally unbalanced." Cracked or not, Casement was confident that a victorious Germany would benignly liberate Ireland. He made his way to Berlin, where he soon found that the German government consisted of "swine and cads." His attempt to recruit Irish soldiers captured by the Germans and dragoon them into fighting the British proved a wretched fiasco-and even his hosts showed their distaste for the notion of tampering with soldiers' loyalties. In the days of Verdun and Jutland, there were, after all, 250,000 Irish volunteers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Imparfit Gentil Knight | 2/4/1974 | See Source »

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