Word: popularizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even before the campaign officially began, Wallace received close to 20% of the popular vote in both of the major polls. In the South, the Gallup poll gave him a full 36%, more than either Richard Nixon or Hubert Humphrey. If crowd reactions are any indication, the disorders in Chicago have only strengthened his repressive "law and order" theme. "The other two national parties," he said on television last week, "are panic-stricken because they realize that they can no longer hoodwink the American people. They have stayed in power this long only because there was no other choice...
...represented a majority view among Democrats. It is regrettable, perhaps, that the American political system did not cast up two more modern and exciting candidates than Hubert Humphrey and Richard Nixon. But the decision in Chicago, as in Miami Beach, does in a rough sort of way reflect the popular mood. Despite the deep disillusionment of many Americans with the Old Politics, the majority seems to have no strong appetite for radical solutions...
After his two terms as a progressive, popular Governor, the New England liberal came to Washington with an understanding of legislative procedure that served him well in skirmishes against the Bourbon craftsmen of the Senate's Southern bloc. In 1966, when Lyndon Johnson's Model Cities proposal was foundering, Muskie called the White House and explained why he felt the bill could not be passed as drafted. He then set to work hammering out an acceptable substitute, which he later guided to passage with a combination of eloquence and parliamentary skill. "The pages of history are full of the tales...
...ADORATION OF THE SHEPHERDS. The scene fairly breathes piety and tranquillity. Indeed, the painting is one of the most popular masterpieces owned by Washington's National Gallery. Yet the question of who did it is surrounded by acrimony. Art Dealer Joseph Duveen and Critic Bernard Berenson broke off their friendship after an argument over whether it is by Giorgione or by his protégé, Titian. The scarcity of Giorgione's work compounds the problem. He died in his early 30s, and left behind only six or seven paintings. Thus, when Duveen bought The Adoration, he preferred...
Crane was patently a born rebel who delighted in scandalizing his age. But the clearest-and most surprising-picture that emerges from Stallman's meticulous fact-finding is that Crane was not the starving garret poet of popular legend. At his peak, he was well-paid. Convivial and generous, he virtually gave his money away. He was lionized as a celebrity when most of his contemporaries had scarcely finished college. But he was also a frail and sickly young man, and he did have a presentiment that his life-span would be short. He labored desperately to get down...