Word: brandings
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DIED. Paul Blanshard, 87, anti-Catholic polemicist and lawyer who bedeviled the church in the 1940s and '50s with numerous lawsuits and such incendiary treatises as the bestselling American Freedom and Catholic Power (1949); in St. Petersburg, Fla. A third-generation clergyman and twin brother of Philosopher Brand Blanshard, Paul was a Congregationalist minister before deciding that "Christianity is so full of fraud that any honest man should repudiate the whole shebang and espouse atheism instead." His broadsides against the church's "authoritarian control over the minds of men," something he equated with Stalinism, and its "unAmerican" involvement...
...reaction of the council, and of a broad spectrum of professors both at Harvard and at other universities, has been one of bafflement. Many feel that Harberger's association with the Chilean military regime, his brand of "Chicago school" economics, and his strictly economic approach to development will damage the HIID's reputation, and set it on a narrow course, which might exclude other disciplines like sociology and anthropology...
Gunter Wallraff's brand of muckraking goes one step beyond that of America's most celebrated jounalists, Woodward and Bernstein. Rather than inducing government employees to lead to the press, Wallraff becomes an employee himself, and then writes about his experiences, exposing the graft, deception and mistreatment he encounters along the way. His technique requires few accessories--false identification, perhaps, a varied wardrobe, change of moustache and glasses--for the most part, though, his own resourcefulness time and again enables him to escape from tight situations...
...This shimmer of decay, 80 years later, still lights up the contemporary terrain so pervasively that the city seems less a historical place than a state of mind. Psychoanalysis was born there, as well as atonal music, several schools of urban planning and modern Zionism. Vienna also spawned the brand of hooligan anti-Semitism that was admired, studied and perfected by an Austrian named Adolf Hitler. The powerful impulses sent out from turn-of-the-century Vienna have made it difficult to imagine the place as it actually was, to sense how and why people converged there in ways that...
...roster: You Can't Take It with You, The Royal Family (about the Barrymores), The Impossible Years and the long-running Broadway hit Gemini. A play like The Man Who Came to Dinner is very closely related to this genre. What links them all together is a zany brand of eccentricity, an inebriation of the mind and spirit rather than the body...