Word: lochinvar
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...political Lochinvar has most recently appeared in the form of clean-shaven, well-dressed, steely-eyed George Romney, erstwhile president of American Motors and now Republican candidate for the governorship of Michigan. In the drama and suddenness of his rise to political prominence, he is in the great American tradition of Woodrow Wilson, Wendell Willkie and Dwight Eisenhower...
What is most striking about Romney as a Lochinvar-figure, however, is that, like Eisenhower, he has achieved political prominence in a time of no great domestic crisis. In this sense, Romney's emergence as a national figure has come less because it answers a real national need than because the internal state of American politics renders it very opportune. Republican leaders are running their party on "stop-gap" measures. As was pointed out in a special study of the Republican Party published last week, the party is in complete organizational disorder, from the understaffed precinct offices to the ideological...
Harold Taylor of Sarah Lawrence, who in 1945 rode out of the West (the philosophy department of the University of Wisconsin) and, Lochinvar-like, captured the hearts of blue-jeaned undergraduates as the nation's youngest (30) college president. Handsome Harold Taylor skied, played tennis, taught classes at Manhattan's New School in his first years at Sarah Lawrence, throughout his term tossed off opinions ("It's important that someone raise some hell with philosophy") as John D. Rockefeller Sr. passed out dimes. He ran his college well, but had to give up teaching as administrative duties...
...Donald Hopewell. The nurse discourages the doctor with a wallop ("Touché, Miss Markham; I deserved that"), and the etherized Donald is saved just as the doctor is about to put him under the knife. The curtain rings down as the principals alternate a love duet with commercials for Lochinvar ("the soap of silken supremacy") and Billy Boy Wax ("the waxy wax that spells relax"). The action unfolds to the accompaniment of some thunderous cliches: "You remind me of someone I knew long, long ago"; "Love is just the most important thing that can happen to a person"; "Beneath that...
...Young Lochinvar. In Bad Kreuznach, West Germany, after he stole a 50-ton M-47 tank and chugged for a seven-mile joy ride, Private Walter F. Brown got a two-year prison sentence despite his explanation that he took the tank to show his girl friend that he could drive...