Word: ogreish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course, ruthless, utterly cynical, a fluent liar, and (in the opinion of some psychiatrists) a paranoid personality. And yet "there was to this ogreish creature a kind of innocence that may be one of the clues to his triumphs and his failures." Innocence because, as Rovere sees it, he never seriously believed in his own charges, his own cause, so that even his hatred was pretense. During Committee hearings, he could turn on his rage at will and stage a tantrum walkout just in time to get to the men's room. "McCarthy, though a demon himself...