Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Indonesia's President Sukarno worked his face up into a "say prunes" expression as a Soviet gift-bearer pinned a Lenin Peace Medal on him. The ruble equivalent of the prize: $25,000. As Sukarno saw it, the honor was fitting recognition of his overflowing "love for humanity...
...mistakes have been made, blame it on youth. "The greatest scandal of the Cuban revolution is not the expropriation of the planters, but the accession to power of children. Since a revolution was necessary, circumstances bade the children accomplish it. Touring the islands, I have met, dare I say it, my sons. No one is totally qualified in Cuba to do what he does. But nobody worries, because qualification comes with success, disqualification with failure...
...colonial America, Thomas Morton had the undiluted, courage to hate Puritans and say so, calling little Miles Standish "Captain Shrimp." Between Thomas Morton and Morton Sahl, most political satirists shielded themselves with pseudonyms and fought with fairly heavy steel. Charles Farrar Browne, city editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, set himself up in mid-19th century as the cracker-box philosopher Artemus Ward, announced that the D.C. after Washington stood for "Desprit Cusses," and advised President Lincoln to fill his Cabinet with show-business types since they would know how to cater to the public. Mark Twain was often deserted...
...center line of the Ward-Dooley-Rogers tradition. The Depression and war years produced only minor political satire. Among comedians, Bob Hope -who still typifies the older, machine-tooled and essentially safe topical joke-might crack about Eleanor Roosevelt's never staying home; Fred Allen liked to say that Tom Dewey seemed to be eating a Hershey bar sideways. But satire on the whole was caught between social protest and safe, sponsor-tested lampoons. With Mort Sahl, political satire has come alive again...
...which was his fondness for sniping at the President: a critic had said that if the President were really a man, he would take a little colored girl by the hand and lead her through that line of bigots into the high school. "That's easy to say if you are not involved," said Sahl, fingering the trigger. "But if you are in the Administration, you have a lot of problems of policy, like whether or not to use an overlapping grip." Wild laughter always greeted that one, but with a nod and a nervous chuckle, and a characteristic...