Word: placards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...administrative assistant to a protegee of Ted Kennedy, Massachusetts State Senator Beryl Cohen, Maryellen has on the wall above her desk a placard: HAPPINESS IS TED KENNEDY IN 1972. At the Chicago Convention last summer, the Democratic National Committee praised her as a "woman doer." In 1963, after she was graduated from Regis College in Weston, Mass., Maryellen decided to work in politics. "John Kennedy said that it was the only way to make things better, and that the whole world needed us," she says. Ted Kennedy recruited her to help in Bobby's presidential campaign-"A wild...
...thesis of this protest-placard of a book is that the time has come for man to stop tugging his forelock before the nonexistent authorities of the universe and openly admit that he will not settle for anything less than divine everlasting life...
...crowd of about 50 students had gathered outside Lehman when Russell S. Carr, manager of Dudley House Dining Hall, jostled Rossman, kicked his placard down the stairs, and ordered him off University property. (Harvard rules forbid vending on campus). When Rossman refused to withdraw, Carr attempted to confiscate his box of about a dozen yogurt cartoons. Rossman demanded remuneration, and Carr retreated to call the University police...
Apologize Now. The stumbler in the campaign is the G.O.P. vice-presidential candidate, Maryland's Governor Spiro Agnew. He has committed so many errors, in fact, that a picket greeted him in Washington last week with a placard reading: APOLOGIZE NOW, SPIRO. IT WILL SAVE TIME LATER...
...Humphrey became remarkably like him in his desire to please everybody, his ambivalence, his addiction to hyperbole, his fidelity to the power blocs of the old politics (big labor, Southern Democrats, the surviving bosses and the elderly). He also became vulnerable to the kind of accusation emblazoned on a placard in Chicago last week: "There are two sides to every question; Humphrey endorses both...