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...speculations about his mother's bed are beside the point. Her we have Sir Norman, fantastically wealthy, illegitimate, weak, gullible, and queer. He is victimized as a matter of course. His first tormentor, his mother aside, is a nightclub singer named Lily Vail who gets him to marry her so that she can divorce him, thereby gaining fame via scandal and fortune via alimony and blackmail. He is later a victim of a sculptress whom he commissions to create an enormous "Ritualistic Orgy of the Titans" in front of his desert home; her American Indian husband, who convinces Norman that...
Last week at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Government and International Affairs, Lyndon Johnson, venerably capped and gowned for the occasion, made a determined attempt to enlist the support of academe. At the same time, he delivered a few more oblique shafts at his chief tormentor, Senator William Fulbright, a whilom hero of the intellectuals...
...fourth time this season, Harvard's basketball teams lost a game in the last ten seconds of play. Last night the Crimson's tormentor was M.I.T., and the score...
...started going at him again. Díaz, he said, sneered that in Tampa next day the crew would hand him over to "the people in Ybor City," a section of town jammed with Castro-hating exiles. Ramírez pulled a .38 and shot his tormentor, then, wild with fury, dashed aft to kill Franco and the others, sparing only the Honduran youngster and the cook "because I had nothing against them...
Charlie's chief tormentor, Lucy van Pelt, is a tiny, black-haired termagant, a caricature of the modern aggressive female. "Here's a perfect parody of what American life is supposed to be," says Pogo's creator Walt Kelly: "The ineffectual male and the domineering female." "Blockhead!" Lucy shouts at Charlie, and the insult throws him into a somersault. When she has outwitted him, she purrs: "I admire your boundless faith in human nature." Bellows this girl who aspires to go to military school: "I don't want any downs-I just want...