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...regular Kansas Republicans make their moves slowly; they abhor violent change. Stunned by Hall's ax-wielding and pro-labor actions, they assessed the situation silently, then began moving Kansas and earth to throw the upstart out. Hall's right-to-work veto drew the wrath of the powerful Kansas City Star; his purge of old friends in the State Civil Service Board brought suspicious frowns; his meddling and muddling in legislative affairs ("I am the governor") stirred deep resentment. When Hall called recalcitrant legislators "s.o.b.s" to their faces during a bitter legislative rhubarb early this year...
Manhattan's hard-bitten police reporters clannishly resent invasions on their beat, whether by some general-assignment upstart from the city staff 'or by a gadget called TV. Last week the newsmen at headquarters glared hard at TV's intruding eye and stared it right down...
...winning famous victories with no active assistance from the prophet. Later Saul directly flouts God's will, as interpreted by Samuel, with the air of a man who gets his orders direct. Jealous of Saul and resentful of his own failing prophetic powers, Samuel sets about plotting the upstart king's undoing. Samuel's master stroke is to seek out David, the young poet whom Saul loves like a son. Though David protests his loyalty to Saul, Samuel whispers: "Saul has drawn down upon himself and his house the displeasure of the Lord ... It is upon...
...pattern of 1952 showed, winning primaries will not necessarily win the nomination for Kefauver. If he won enough of them, he would be hard to contend with. But his fellow U.S. Senators (who look upon him as an upstart), most regular organization Democrats (who regard him as a tricky lone wolf) and Southern Democrats (who consider him a Southern apostate) do not want to give the nomination to the Senator from Tennessee. If not Stevenson and not Kefauver, then...
...chose from Molière something so relatively familiar and so lightly entertaining as Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. Far from the great Molière of Le Misanthrope, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme is indeed not only broad Molière, but also broad comedy. Its picture of the rich, gullible upstart M. Jourdain, who desires, with the most impassioned fatuousness, to live like-and among-persons of quality, is a sort of satiric-strip characterization. There is a delightful absurdity about him, whether in the family scenes, or with the lackeys he yells for "just to see if they heard...