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...that meeting, Rickey had also told Robinson that baseballs would be the least lethal things thrown at him if he decided to take the chance Rickey was offering, and then, to be sure Robinson understood what he meant. Rickey uncorked a demi-tasse of the bigot's verbal vinegar and threw it in Robinson's face...
...happening" became a proliferating desire for instant sensation. "Participation" was extorted from the audience, often with arrogant ill grace. Obscene words were flung at playgoers to the point of shock fatigue, and nudity was flaunted. As for trashing, the classics were vandalized and literacy, craft, formal structure and verbal text violently abused...
...Democrats have shot verbal harpoons at the huge subsidies. Senator William Proxmire has said that the program is "mindless" and financially "out of control." Though the nation's tax money doubtless could be put to better uses, the majority of legislators from both parties have lined up behind the maritime program. The maritime lobby is one of Washington's strongest, giving generous political contributions and speakers' fees to legislators; it has also contributed to President Nixon's campaign. Unions and management work hand in glove to promote new shipbuilding projects, since leaders of both know full...
...problem incenses and bewilders McGovern. He told a LIFE interviewer, "Inside, I've been alternately weeping and boiling. The quality I treasure most is my credibility." All last week McGovern's frustration seemed to mount. His rhetoric took on a new stridence, a tendency toward verbal overkill that was at odds with the image of plain-spoken reason he had earlier cultivated. At times there were notes of self-righteousness and occasional self-pity...
...wind." The words of Chinese Painter Chin Nung were quoted by Kawabata in his Nobel Prize speech. Here, despite Translator Seidensticker's efforts, Kawabata's language does not come across as Japanese readers say it should-like strung-together haiku. Yet, even stripped of some of its verbal blossoms, the bare outline of the branch emerges. For readers willing to listen intently, there is the unmistakable rustle of the wind...