Abstract
A peculiar fate awaits strong language in parliamentary sanctums; it is judged by the Chair. No doubt an enterprising scholar will one day subject parliamentary pro ceedings to content analysis, to determine how consensus, political stability, and all manner of important conditions are indicated by the rise and fall of invective in assem blies. When Nikita Khrushchev, who has a certain fame for verbal pyrotechnics, pro duced a display in the United Nations recently, we decided to present it in relation to the flow of marginal language from assemblies around the world.
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