Word: flag
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...American flag never comes down at 395 Concord Ave. in Belmont. Illuminated at night and resilient through foul weather, the Stars and Stripes provides the only glint of color near the bleak rectangle of red bricks. This is a decidedly no-nonsense building, surrounded by an equally no-nonsense post office and public library. No doubt about it, there is work to be done at the national headquarters of the John Birch Society, 12 minutes from Harvard Square...
Carter "has wrapped himself in the American flag, draft registration, and the politics of the cold war," as Alexander Cockburn and James Ridgeway of The Village Voice wrote last week. He has understandably--in the context of the American political system--channeled the confusion to advance his reelection prospects, incapacitating his opponents by playing the "Rose Garden Strategy" and acting "presidential" to perfection. The nationalism has been all-consuming; Americans have forgotten about banalities such as inflation. As The New Republic...
IRONICALLY, CARTER has resorted to flag-waving in order to hide his domestic failures, when solutions to these very problems--particularly that of energy--would best cure America's foreign policy headaches in the Persian Gulf. The region is a vital American interest only because American greed has made it so. To impose an emergency energy plan, complete with gasoline rationing, would be a far stronger policy than to reinstitute draft registration...
...Beauty Salon" special, complete with dragging bumper, to victory. Damned if he doesn't, for Jim understands the secrets of iceracing: stay out of the sliding wrecks on the corners, drive in high gear but steady, pass when it's hardly a gamble. He slows to grab the checkered flag from the starter, circling Sunrise Lake in victory...
Case in point--Ted Kennedy, who here, like everywhere, is the man people want to talk about. Three months ago, the checkered flag was his for the grabbing, and then the wide second turn and the slide--ice chips everywhere. People liked him; Korea vet Ed, who was going to back him because "he helps the old people who have to wrap themselves in newspapers to keep warm." Or Marie, who will vote for Kennedy in her first election because "he is a Kennedy--because his brothers were good." Or Mike, who may not vote because "it doesn...