Word: taunting
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...next civil disobedient to taunt the local establishment this week is Dr. Benjamin Spock, revolutionary anti-war activist and author of the equally revolutionary all-time bestselling "The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care." Spock, who spent his Thoreauvian night in jail for counseling youths on how to avoid the draft, will also speak at Morse Auditorium, on Sunday Feb. 13 at 11 a.m. His topic, which sticks out like a sore thumb in these staid '70's, will be "The Need for Radical Political Action...
...Taunt-couriers of all-spiteful God, who sends...
...style is a blend of Gaelic eloquence, Harvard donnishness and American stump evangelism. In front of a microphone or over a dinner table, he can draw on a broad mental library of recondite words, literary and historical allusions and outlandish bits of jargon to taunt, flatter or flay adversaries. He has stormed the rostrum to denounce the General Assembly as "a theater of the absurd" and to dismiss reports on American imperialism as "rubbish." When something clear and pleasing emerges from U.N. newspeak, he quotes James Joyce to describe the rare phenomenon: "Its whatness leaps to us from the vestment...
...yellow, black and white, runs this sham commune as a means of assembling responsive young boys; his heart is back in London, where trendy liberals once puffed him up from criminal to Third World celebrity. Roche's English mistress is a bored adventuress who likes to taunt men. This trio forms, as things turn out, a menage made in hell...
...among college students as they have in ordinary life. Constant use, frequently in playful and affectionate circumstances, have emasculated them of any dark, taboo properties they might once have had. Pauline Kael has observed that college students really cannot conceive of the vicious injury inflicted when they as demonstrators taunt policemen and National Guardsmen with the casual obscenities of the collegiate vocabulary. They do not realize that for most people these obscenities are still functional weapons...