Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bitter comments on humanity, and the title of his first postwar collection was obviously inspired by Steig's famed caption, "People Are No Damn Good." But where Steig sometimes turns soft and subtle, Osborn is freer and more frightening. With wild, axlike penstrokes, he carves out vicious children, rich dowagers, tyrants and tycoons. Heads become onions festooned with spikes; eyes are thin slits or insane whirls...
...university or the character of the evil they are seeking to uproot. When faced with this threat our strongest weapon is found among those academic principles which we feel constrained to defend--respect for the opinions of others. I am convinced that today's Communist hunters are not inherently vicious men seeking only to persecute harmless professors. I feel that, for the most part, our problem today is the result of the misdirection of the efforts of sincere men in the face of what most conscientious citizens regard as an unprincipled and powerful enemy--world Communism. In my view...
...wanted me, having just met me. I asked him what kind of people he wanted to bring there . . . and he told me . . . people who have no dogmatic religious beliefs." In a statement to the press. Mathews called Miss Lenkeith's story "a tissue of fabrication and vicious falsehoods...
...recognize the Chinese Communist government, and the Korean war upset the plan. Canadian diplomats now admit that Canada "would have looked awfully foolish and inept if we'd gone through with recognition." They also confess that they did not expect the Chinese Reds "to be as vicious as they became" in Korea. But disillusioned though they have been on some scores, Canada's China policymakers still look with cool distaste on the Nationalists in Formosa, still cling to their passive attitude toward Chinese Communism...
...States High Commission in Germany? . . . Well, there are some of the members on the staff of Harvard who have long, long lists of connections that are not too lily-white . . . Mr. Conant dopes indeed appear to be soft-headed--much too soft to lead freedom's cause in the vicious East-West fight in Germany today...