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...Anti-Defamation Leagues of Philadelphia and Newark, which had sponsored the mail-in, were incensed. Said New Jersey League Official Robert Kohler: "It is the sin of waste in the face of hunger. It was wanton, cynical destruction of good food." Kohler and others claimed that many of the packages were marked with return addresses, but postal authorities insisted that only a handful were thus labeled, and that anyway, they feared a contamination hazard. Undeterred, the A.D.L. protesters intend to keep up their mail-a-matzo pressure on the Soviets...
Several years later a group of Senators, headed by Isolationist Burton K. Wheeler, weighed The Great Dictator and found it wanton. The mustachioed Adenoid Hynkel, they concluded accurately, was none other than the Chancellor of Germany. The film was one of a number of movies, including Sergeant York and I Married a Nazi, that were under investigation. They were warmongering propaganda, theorized the Senate subcommittee; it was all engineered by the New Deal. With timing characteristic of the Old Right, the subcommittee chose to attack Chaplin in the fall of 1941. Three months later Charlie was again rescued, this time...
...Even though the I.R.A. boasted that the Aldershot bombers had escaped to safety in Ireland, British police searched the homes of hundreds of Irish nationals living in England and held scores of Irishmen for questioning. Apart from the terrorists, almost everyone appeared to have been shocked by the latest wanton killing of civilians. Even Irish Catholic M.P. Bernadette Devlin, who a few weeks ago angrily stated that she "would not shed a single tear" for any British soldiers killed in revenge, admitted that the act of retaliation had gone "horrifically wrong." In Dublin, Irish Republican Prime Minister John Lynch "unreservedly...
Language, like the world it represents, can never be static. Even today the pun survives fitfully in tabloid headlines: JUDGES WEIGH FAN DANCER'S ACT, FIND IT WANTON. It survives in the humor of S.J. Perelman, the only post-Joycean writer capable of fluent bilingual flippancy: "lox vobiscum," "the Saucier's Apprentice," and the neo-Joycean "Anna Trivia Pluralized." The pun makes its happiest regular appearance in the work of Novelist Peter De Vries, who writes stories about compulsive punners. "I can't stop," he claims. "I even dream verbal puns. Like the one in which...
...confronts his paramours, who happen to be some of her best friends. She then determines to be wild and wanton enough with Hubby's friends to match his score. He meanwhile is being ministered to by a battalion of quacks and incompetents, and is fading faster with every hour...