Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...crucial question for the Corporation will be whether to install a strong, outspoken leader like Yale's Kingman Brewster, or a more "corporate" figure. It is said that the last strongman President. Pusey's predecessor James L. Conant, was often at odds with the Corporation...
...conducted with a remarkable understanding. He was, in the final summing up, a conductor of vastly underrated talent, a man who never received the recognition that was due his talent as an interpreter of modern and Romantic composers. Certainly he lacked the breadth and far-ranging talent of his predecessor Toscanini, but few outranked him in that area of music which he knew and performed best...
...writing will change more gradually, but romantic novels with wilting heroines and swashbuckling heroes will be reduced to historical value. Or perhaps to the sadomasochist trade. (Marjorie Morningstar, a romantic novel that took the '50s by storm, has already begun to seem as unreal as its '20s predecessor, The Sheik.) As for the literary plots that turn on forced marriages or horrific abortions, they will seem as dated as Prohibition stories. Free legal abortions and free birth control will force writers to give up pregnancy as the deus ex machina...
...never going to practice dentistry on me.' That's all right.' he replied. 'I'm never going to play golf with you.' " Not all of the humor was intentional. Toward the end of his speech, Agnew referred to Rivers' predecessor, former Representative Carl Vinson, as "the late Carl Vinson." On the phone in Georgia, the 86-year-old ex-Congressman was not amused: "I saw that in the paper. I've got no comment. I'm still living." Slam...
...WEIMAR ANALOGY is pretty clear. It says that 1970 America, rather than being like Nazi Germany, is like its predecessor, the Weimar Republic of the 20's. Liberal institutions are revealed as totally bankrupt, minority revolution is fiercely suppressed, majority coasts along with mounting prosperity, finding its soul in moments of absolute debauchery. Hitler is the inevitable next step...