Word: venomous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More important than the book's moral--if it has one--is the presence of Agnew's old, anti-liberal venom. Though he has scrapped his polysyllabic, alliterative invectives, Agnew still displays contempt for students, activists, professors, welfare mothers and the rest of that crew. He displays his feelings about the media, and about Jews, with special gusto...
...Without Venom. A Mercenary describes a far different victim of the Holocaust. Stanislav Lushinski is a Polish Jew who survived both the Nazis and the Russians and now works as the U.N. representative for a small African nation. Colleagues mock him as the "P.M."(Paid Mouthpiece), but his past has put him beyond their taunts - and, he hopes, beyond any pain other humans can cause. His cold irony makes him a perfect manipulator of international diplomacy. "Don't try to ram against the inevitable," he advises a young black assistant. "Instead, tinker with the timing." If Lushinski...
...Jordanian delegation (see box, next page) but would refuse to deal directly with the hated Palestine Liberation Organization. "We know what the [P.L.O.] objective is," he said. "It is written large into the Palestinian Covenant, which is their binding constitution. Every paragraph of it spits out the venom calling for Israel's destruction." Because of the U.S. Jewish lobby's influence in the elections, Ford and Kissinger are unlikely to put strong pressure on Israel. Indeed, Washington's plans for the Middle East in 1976 have been variously described by State Department officials as "a holding action...
...class at the Veterans' Division of Newbury Junior College did not agree. "He's a bitter man!" "A Communist!" "A fag" they'd cried when I'd read them the excerpt in our classroom at St. Mary's High School in Central Square, and for a while their venom threatened to dissolve fragile bonds of trust built with their Harvard graduate-student teacher over six short weeks...
...Boyle. She coordinates her fickle behavior with the theme of insanity. Howze uses her spindly body delicately. She shapes her mouth into a crooked leer. And Old Woman Pus's complaint that her head is full of cobwebs emphasizes her resemblance to a spider with its graceful agility and venom...