Word: vot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vot's in the Vodka...
Traveling fashion exhibits tour the mountains of Transylvania and other remote areas to bring the message to peasant crones in babushkas. Even in Bulgaria, the most retarded nation of the bloc, the party journal Partien Zhi-vot recently reasoned: "We must not lag behind the more advanced countries in being attractively attired. Foreigners judge the superiority of our socialist way of life not only from our factories, building programs and roads, but also from the outward appearance of our people...
...headlong clatter of A Number of Things is occasionally slowed by pages of travel-book writing, and the jokes are sometimes tasteless as well as brash. Sir Manfred Schulz, for instance, and his "Vot's dat?" wife seem as xenophobic as anything in Saki's short stories. But Author Tracy also shares with Saki a grand and grisly way with a funny anecdote, as when a decorous lawn party belatedly realizes that the West Indian gardener who lopes by is carrying in his hand not a melon, but the severed head of the cook. Before he is carted...
Said its president. Rabbi David I. Golo-vensky: "Voting for a presidential candidate because he is a Catholic or vot ing against him because he belongs to the Catholic faith is a sinister betrayal of the fundamental precept of American democracy." In the influential Jesuit weekly America, the Rev. John Courtney Murray, a front-rank Catholic theologian, said that "the oldest American prejudice. anti-Catholicism, is as poisonously alive today as it was in 1928, or even in the 1840s. My chief hope is that old Catholic angers will not rise. Now is the time for the tra dition...