Word: torquemada
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...down to size. Last week it happened. In Manhattan, WABD's Night Beat filled its "hot seat" with Journalist Randolph Churchill, only son of Sir Winston. He listened politely to his introduction as a man who has been labeled "outspoken, ill-tempered and fearless." But when TV Torquemada John Wingate brought up the "unfortunate incident involving the arrest of your sister Sarah in California" (TIME, Jan. 27), Churchill more than lived up to his billing...
...mugs through an uproarious monologue on graduation day at a bop school, i.e., a baccalaureate sermon on how to puff marijuana cigarettes without wasting a whiff of those "leftwing Luckies." With poker-faced, evil-eyed Straight Man Gerry Matthews, 26, he delivers a to-the-point parody of TV Torquemada Mike Wallace. The cellar's other mummers are Ceil Cabot, a pout-mouthed Imogene Cocaesque comedienne with a wonderful talent for double and triple takes, and Singer Jenny Lou Law, who laments the love she lost in a grocery-"I was looking for Wheaties; you were looking...
Father Davis loses me completely when he speaks of Spanish-Jewish "coexistence." I would like some clarification on this point. Does he mean that the Spaniards of Torquemada's time agreed to let the Jew coexist with them as long as he became a Catholic? To a Humanist like myself, the sugar-coating of history is the greatest of all "sins...
...began to tire of Sunday. Heywood Broun (not yet a Roman Catholic) called him the "tank-town Torquemada." Princeton's Dean Andrew West, "in the name of ... the purity and sanctity of our Christian faith," denied Billy permission to speak on the campus. He died in 1935, most forgotten of men. Booze was legal again, the tabernacle lumber was being used for CCC camps, and other trombones were heard in the land...
McCarthy's dubious service to the 22% who needed his tutelage accounts for less than half the McCarthy myth. The rest of it was supplied by the New and Fair Dealers who set out to prove that this cunning opportunist was the reincarnation of Torquemada, Huey Long and Hitler...