Word: inquisitor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Efrem Zimbalist Jr., playing the doctor's chief inquisitor, gets involved in the life of one of his subjects. "She's the first case history I've ever allowed to become more than a statistic," he says. His visa-vis is Jane Fonda, a test pilot's widow who thinks she is frigid; Zimbalist sets out to prove that...
...Though he was a good friend of Senator McCarthy, Williams acknowledges that the grand inquisitor from Wisconsin "transgressed the rights of some witnesses." Williams defended his friend before the Senate committee that in 1954 cited McCarthy for contempt, and in making much of the assertion that McCarthy's mail had been inspected without his knowledge, concludes: "History must show in one of its more ironical paragraphs that McCarthy was himself a casualty of a congressional investigation that flouted the rules of fair play...
With Irene Hoffman (Judy Garland), Rolfe extends his tactic until he becomes a ranting inquisitor. Janning can take it no longer, and demands to make a statement: he would rather condemn himself than watch this young man turn into a Nazi on his behalf. Janning's voice drowns out Rolfe's protests: "My defense counsel would have you believe that we were not aware of concentration camps. Not aware? Where were...
...Inquisitors & Recorders. Lawmakers from Florida to California report that ultraconservatives flock to political meetings of both parties to register their complaints about the U.S. handling of the Communist threat. Florida's Democratic Representative Dante Fascell argues with the Birchites. but finds it tough going. "At almost every meeting I go to. there's an inquisitor somewhere in the audience." he says. "He's got chapter and verse, a list of questions and material a yard long." California's Democratic Representative James Gorman says: "I have spoken at over a hundred meetings, and these people are always...
Bushy-browed Prime Minister Robert G. Menzies, 66, seeking his sixth term as leader of the Liberal-Country Party coalition, called hecklers "ratbags," "yahoos,'' "silly goats." In Sydney, one inquisitor referred to a false rumor that Menzies had a weak heart, shouted to the Prime Minister: "How's your heart?" The grinning candidate yelled back: "A lot sounder than your head...