Word: tigers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even Senators who murmur that Long "follows strange gods" do not question his ability. Admits one Republican Senator: "When he gets hold of something, he's a tiger with it." Long has a penetrating mind and. says one Senate staffer, is "one of the very few members left who can make a speech that will change some minds right on the floor...
...Obituaries. The strike has further shaken Broadway's already shaky economics, and has hastened the death of at least two shows that represented an investment of $190,000. Though Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright opened to generally favorable reviews, few New Yorkers could read them-and the show closed after 33 performances. To avoid the same fate. Bert Lahr's comedy. The Beauty Part, has been spending three times the normal advertising budget to conduct contests for free tickets and hire a skywriting plane. Without newspapers, mail orders for Broadway tickets are way down; Beauty Part orders trickle...
...anything as good. Roth accepted the award with a witty speech about the nonsensical questions writers are asked (Should the writer smoke marijuana or shouldn't he? Is Yaddo* bad for you? Should he have a telephone?). The tone of the speech was not that of a young tiger intent on astonishing his elders but of an accepted member of the literary world whose high position is beyond the need of proof...
...matter what kind of teeth imperialism may have-whether guns, tanks, rocket or nuclear teeth-its paper-tiger nature cannot change. Those who attack this proposition have obviously lost every quality a revolutionary ought to have and have instead become shortsighted and timid as mice...
What we need are not paper definitions stubbornly thrust upon us, but a genuine analysis of contemporary imperialism, including its huge atomic and other military potential. The expression "paper tiger" actually leads to the demobilization of the masses, because it conditions them to the thought that the strength of imperialism is a myth...