Word: vendettas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Greg Wierzynski: "Politically, this is not good for me. It cannot do anyone any good to be involved. This is the home state of the Kennedys, and they are loved. How can anyone who is involved in prosecuting or investigating them come out with any advantage? A vendetta against the Kennedys? Ridiculous!" His fulminations aside, Dinis was following respectable legal procedure in seeking the autopsy -though he could have saved both Kennedy and the Kopechnes much grief by ordering the examination on the day of the death, while the body was still in his jurisdiction...
...blows, distortion and invective, Vidal is the clear-cut winner in the Esquire phase of the Buckley-Vidal vendetta. In fact, Buckley last week widened his sights and filed a new $1,000,000 libel suit, this one against Esquire...
...Wallace a "slobbering snerd." His most abiding hatred was for the Roosevelts. Berating F.D.R. and his family in column after column, he termed the President a "feebleminded fiihrer" and found it "regrettable that Giuseppe Zangara hit the wrong man when he shot at Roosevelt in Miami." He waged a vendetta against Eleanor Roosevelt, whom he dismissed as "La Boca Grande" (the big mouth). Pegler once defended such tactics with a confession: "My hates have always occupied my mind much more actively than my friendships...
...Kilson's out-of-hand dismissal of the legitimacy of black student protest was little more than embarrassing. His was a blind reaction that saw the black students' criticisms as something of a personal vendetta; and while attributing to the black students "anti-intellectual" attitudes, his remarks were disappointingly sophomoric. Dr. Kilson's reactions are particularly surprising in light of the posture he assumed with regard to black protest in an article of the Harvard Journal of Negro Affairs ("Responses to Blackness: Negro Americans and Africa...
...contrast the manipulative vampirism of the producer with the task and plight of the writer. At play's end, the band of esthetic fugitives receive word that their boss has committed suicide. Some English reviewers have interpreted the play as a drame a clef-Osborne's public vendetta with Producer-Director Tony Richardson after a recent bitter breakup of their long working relationship. Ordinary audiences, however, can hardly be expected to make sense of arcane theatrical gossip...