Word: crossroads
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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Four years ago, he and his tireless wife Nancy came out of political nowhere to tour the state in their battered De Soto convertible. Soapy called square dances at every crossroad, and he and Nancy out-polkaed the Polish-Americans in Hamtramck. In six months of hard campaigning they got Soapy elected as one of the rare Democratic governors in a traditionally Republican state. In 1950 they did it again, to make him the second Democratic governor in Michigan's history ever elected in a nonpresidential year. Last week, at an undaunted 41 years. Soapy plunged into the campaign...
...illiterate political bosses, the FBI, and the generals, under the form of a sham democracy in which the population, given a meaningless paper franchise and deprived of all rights and liberties, finds itself helpless either to stay its own increasing victimization -see the charred black corpse swinging at every crossroad!-or to brake the suicidal careering of its production-and-profit-mad economy toward the imperialistic enslavement of all peoples, total war, and an apocalyptic holocaust and collapse . . . It is, in essence, the myth of the Frankenstein monster, the machine built to be man's slave, and which enslaved...
...weakness for complicated railroad routes, crossroad puzzles and detective novels is more easily explained as the recreation of a naturally acute mind. Because he has a horror of propaganda, his whodunits (the most ingenious has the Knoxious title Double Cross-Purposes) are less theological than Chesterton's Father Brown stories. It is not true, as has been said, that you can always spot the murderer because he is sure to be a Catholic-though that too would be Knox all over; he would think it arrogant to make the hero a Catholic. Yet the London paper which once said...