Word: attack
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Foreign Secretary refused to be intimidated by his audience. Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, he declared, is "a tough politician-I love her very much. But I'm fond of Nasser, too. If you want peace, you have to like both peoples. The Jews are wrong to attack Nasser. I think he is an honest...
That accolade to Alexander Tvardovsky was printed with official blessing in The Great Soviet Encyclopedia in 1956. But in recent years Tvar-dovsky's truth has begun to hurt. Russia's most popular poet has come under increasing attack for failing to show enough vigilance against "bourgeois ideology" in his magazine, Novy Mir (New World). Last week, after four of his top staff members were fired and replaced by men who can be relied upon to follow party dictates faithfully, Tvardovsky could no longer ignore official displeasure: he submitted his resignation as editor of Novy...
...always tried to make sure that demagogues did not get control of his organizations. But by building up such a fierce sense of group solidarity and resentment of the outsider, he may have unwittingly contributed to a new kind of racism. Today, Back of the Yards is under attack for keeping Negroes out; Alinsky threatens to organize the neighborhood all over again. In Rochester, FIGHT became tainted with black racism and whites have been discouraged from joining. In an updated version of his 1946 textbook on organization, Reveille for Radicals, Alinsky wonders how white liberals can believe in the dignity...
Died. Jules Munshin, 54, basset-eyed comic actor, veteran of Hollywood and Broadway; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A seasoned vaudevillian, Munshin's hilarious antics in his first major Broadway role (a mustered-out soldier in 1946's Call Me Mister) established him as a star, and three years later he scored his greatest hit gagging it up with Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly as trouble-prone sailors in the film On the Town. Always drawn back to the stage, he went on to appear in such Broadway productions as The Gay Life, Barefoot in the Park...
...vice president under Getúlio Vargas assumed office upon the dictator's suicide in Aug. 1954, quickly won a reputation as a fair-minded administrator, dedicated to stabilizing Brazil's chaotic one-crop (coffee) economy, only to be forced into retirement by a heart attack after 15 months in office; of a heart attack; in Rio de Janeiro...