Word: cowardly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Along with much of the country, publishers' row figured Lyndon Johnson a cinch for renomination, re-election and reexamination. That was a costly caper, not only for the sponsors of impending paeans such as The Case for Lyndon B. Johnson (Coward-McCann) but also for those who had hoped for easy pickings from a crop of anti-Johnsonia. Even a sympathetic study, the forthcoming A Very Personal Presidency by TIME White House Correspondent Hugh Sidey, stands in need of extensive updating. Taking account of the backlash of sentiment for the President, New American Library has already dropped plans...
...ARTIST TYPE by Brian Glanville. 191 pages. Coward-McCann...
Shredded Mantle. King has heard himself dubbed a rabble-rouser before; now, for leaving the march, he was called a coward as well. Ignoring the intransigent role that Mayor Loeb had played in stoking the Negroes' discontent, King's critics called upon him to cancel his "poor people's march" on Washington next month; some demanded federal curbs against it as well. Undismayed, though his nonviolent mantle was in shreds, King vowed to press ahead with the Washington demonstration and lead another march on Memphis this week...
...unbridled personal ambition." Just as incensed was Liberal Columnist Murray Kempton of the New York Post. Kennedy, he wrote, had shown nothing less than "cowardice" by agreeing to support Johnson before the New Hampshire primary. With the returns in and L.B.J. bloodied, Kennedy is "just as much a coward when he comes down from the hills to shoot the wounded. He has, in the naked display of his rage at Eugene McCarthy for having survived on the lonely road he dared not walk himself, done with a single great gesture something very few public men have ever been able...
...than sympathize with those who risked their lives. He was a fighter through the mouth, and it troubled him. The timid schoolteacher in The House on the Hill is again Pavese. The teacher loves the peasant partisans of the story but lacks their guts. He knows he is a coward, and he knows he is settling for survival...