Word: uglier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rojack murders his wife (an emasculating Great Bitch), tangles with cunning police, staggers into involuting imbroglios with an opportunistic fraulein, a southern chanteuse, a negro singing idol and, through them, with larger or vaguer or uglier forces--the Mafia, haut society, the Muslims, dirty politics, high finance, television, university intelligencia...
...women and children, including King, who dramatized the situation by refusing to make bond for four days. Still the Negroes came, singing "We shall overcome." In reply, Sheriff Clark pinned a button on his shirt reading "Never!" The city's mood grew ever uglier. Business in town fell off by 50% . From Governor Wallace there came no pleas for peace; he merely ordered new platoons of state cops to Selma and environs...
...general failures, the report says, the campaign was based on the "implicit racist appeal of the Southern strategy. The Senator's objections to legislating morality, his criticisms of the Supreme Court, his advocacy of states' rights, all became the shorthand for an anti-civil rights appeal. An uglier aspect of the appeal was the not very subtle attempt to link lawlessness in the streets with the Negroes, and street riots with peaceful civil rights demonstrations...
Gardner said that the commission will emphasize that the destruction of natural beauty "is a real emergency. We have to decide now whether America is going to be beautiful or whether it will get uglier and uglier...
...sophistication and toughness that set Tokyo above and beyond any other Asian city. Even the delightfully wicked quality of its night life helps to weld the city. More than anything else, it is a city of people, of crowds, of action. It is bound to emerge from this Olympiad uglier than ever, but beloved of its people nonetheless...