Word: gray
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...that the efforts are local and voluntary. As the Republican organization grew, so did its returns. Eisenhower had carried Tennessee in 1952 and 1956. Nixon did in 1960 and 1968. Republican Howard Baker won a Senate seat in 1966. Gore was the obvious challenge for Brock this year. The Gray Fox, as Gore has come to be called, was out of tune with Tennessee. He is pro-civil rights and antiwar, in favor of gun-control legislation and against compulsory prayer in public schools. Gore also voted no on Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell...
...didn't even know what the words meant, just coasting through them like Perry Como. And there were rumors that he would make a Hollywood movie produce a Broadway musical. It was like hearing a friend. newly emerged from a siege of electro-therapy, his brain burned into a gray powder, say over and over, "Nice weather we're having...
...from 1951 onward, as one of the leading Abstract Expressionists. His current show at Manhattan's Marlborough Gallery is indeed a change. The old Guston is barely recognizable. The patches and drifts of color, tentatively knitted rather than brushed-like magnified details of a Monet seen through gray glass-have gone...
...visions, as in his plaints, Reich is a peculiar blend of Vance Packard and Pollyanna, a colloidal suspension of William Buckley, William Blake and Herbert Marcuse in pure applesauce. It can be justly said of Reich, as Dr. Johnson once said of Thomas Gray, that "he was dull, but he was dull in a new way, and that made people think him great...
...Their crimes? "Failure to turn informer." Reading a poem unsanctioned by the regime. Writing a letter calling Stalin "the man with the moustache" and commenting ironically on how bad his Russian is-for which "crime" Solzhenitsyn himself spent eight years in Russian prisons. The prisoners' horizon is a gray-black wall. High up on the wall, in two ominous apertures, guards stand with rifles at the ready. Acts I and II each end with an injunction given to the guards: "If anyone makes a move, shoot." By the end of Act III it is quite clear that there...