Word: remarkably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flesh a closet Republican-how else account for his inner 'Yeah man, yeah, go' when fat and flatulent old Republicans got up in Convention Hall to deliver platitudes on the need to return to individual human effort?" Mailer's only second thought was a postscript remark that he "would probably not vote-not unless it was for Eldridge Cleaver...
...that. The white kid says a suspect must be rich because he has an eight thousand dollar car, and the black kid (picked up in the Watts riot, you remember), replies, "May-be he's not rich. I know a cat on welfare who has a bigger car." The remark might come from a militant consciousness akin to Malcolm X's when he called welfare emasculating, but considering that the black boy is working for the police, it probably is just as absurd, vicious, and ugly as it seems...
...seems hard to believe that you said what they said you said. Remarks to the effect that student disruption at Harvard is the work of a "very very tiny group of people, including two or three sons of active Communists"... who had been "carefully indoctrinated before coming to Harvard," are shameful and gratuitously provocative. Your resort to guilt by association (both with the Communist Party and with one's parents--all in one remark!), your attempt to stigmatize a particular set of political beliefs, and your misrepresentation of the sources of student discontent at Harvard set an ugly tone...
Watson made the statement at a meeting of the Harvard College Fund. The remark was in answer to the question of an alumnus about student unrest at Harvard...
...Your remark about Humphrey's strategy ("he seems to play both sides of the fence or simply straddle it") [Aug. 30] aroused the Edward Lear in me: Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey Is guilty of arrant mugwumpery: Now a dove, then hawk, With his fast doubletalk He cozens nonthinkers with trumpery...