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Nudist. War profiteer. Absentee war correspondent. Liar. Fourflusher. Sycophant. Coat holder...
Colonial Pimple. Nehru's new muscle tone was immediately attacked by Peking as fulfilling the "needs of U.S. imperialism." Calling Nehru a liar, an official editorial charged that Nehru's "anti-Chinese" campaign was "inseparably connected with U.S. 'assistance' to India"-in short, that Nehru was only paying back a debt...
...take it back. Lewis made it again. "So I smacked him," recounted Dreiser later with relish. "And I asked him if he wanted to say it again. He said it again. So I smacked him again." The two men were separated, with Lewis shouting, "Theodore, you are a liar and a thief." Dreiser was flooded with congratulatory mail...
...hand, before the white man ("You dah boss, Boss"). Here is the bighearted, yuk-yuk-yukking Southern mammy (Helen Martin). Here is the corn-pone simpleton (Ruby Dee) who says things like "Indo. I deed." Here is the unlicensed preacher hero, Purlie Victorious Judson (Ossie Davis)-a liar, a braggart, a trickster, and the self-appointed messiah of his race ("Who else is they got?"). And here, too, is the neo-Confederate villain, Ol' Cap'n Cotchipee (Sorrell Booke), a Simon Legree plantation owner equipped (in A.D. 1961) with a bull whip and not-quite-so-unbelievable quips...
...until five months later-disqualifying parents of illegitimate children. Testified Kirk at a commission hearing: "She asked did I have any illegitimate children. I said, 'Not as I knows of. If I has, I hasn't been accused of.' She says, 'You are a damned liar.' I just smiled; I could still give the smile. Then she said, 'I know you were going to tell a lie at the first place.' Then she asked the question, 'What were "disfranchise" mean?' I said, 'Just like I am now. This is disfranchise...