Word: swiftness
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Though talk of full-scale war between Turkey and Greece has been muted, the situation remains so volatile that swift success in the peace-keeping negotiations this week is considered urgent by all participants. Yet the problems are so complex and the hatred between Greeks and Turks so deep that no quick solution is in sight...
Obscure Choice. The swift turn of events climaxed the most uncertain week in Lisbon since the April coup and came as something of a rebuff to General António de Spinola, 64, the soldier-hero who has served since then as provisional President and has allowed an unprecedented measure of political freedom. Spinola's choice for Prime Minister after Palma Carlos' ouster had been conservative Defense Minister Lieut. Colonel Mario Firmino Miguel. Instead, the A.F.M. chose one of its own: an obscure army colonel, Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves, 53, a left-leaning officer-engineer...
...years later Swift died in a wretched lunatic asylum, and, down to the present, scholars and critics have exploited the fact as an excuse for lobotomizing the dead Dean's insights. His scatological writing is simply "perverse," "diseased" and best ignored or glossed over...
...matter. The deadliest, most brilliant satire still works by desecration and flourishes in filth. Someone eventually rears up to illuminate the dark underside, reminding us, like Swift, that sham, corruption and violence lurk beneath the surface of our beliefs and institutions and, of course, that Caelia shits. For America in the late fifties and very early sixties there was Lenny Bruce...
Lenny, like poor mad Swift, was a moralist and a conservative. He scourged human deceits and imperfections because he was inseparably attached to the hopeless absolutes they betrayed. His bottom most affinities lay not with his liberal and youthful supporters but with the judges and cops whom he enraged. He shared that rage in a sense and dreamed of vindication in their eyes and desperately believed that the Law would give him a fair shake...