Word: realism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Humphrey's giddy "happy" politics is superficial and disgusting. Eugene McCarthy's attempt is gallant but impractical. Kennedy seems to be the only Democratic candidate who has heard the nation's heartbeat, eloquently expressed its melancholy, and injected a note of hope tempered with pragmatic realism...
...city whose parks are littered with preserved tanks and artillery the way some people clutter their coffee tables with bronzed baby shoes. Many of its public buildings are self-conscious copies of old Washington favorites. Its war memorials offer some of the most embarrassing examples of social realism west of Leningrad. And right smack in the center of the whole city is the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument -- a phallic shaft of stone topped by a 200-foot representation of a frightfully winged female, supposedly "the happiest lady in town...
Nixon's Net. Thus there was more charisma in his domestic politics than realism in his Realpolltik. Rockefeller was attempting to establish himself as the thoughtful surveyor of the big picture, eager for peace but opposing appeasement, less militant than Nixon, more mature than Robert Kennedy, more flexible and far-sighted than the Johnson Administration...
...sheriff's decision to hang up his legislative guns is also based on political realism. Democrat Hayden faced the toughest fight of his career-and perhaps his first defeat since turning professional-because Barry Goldwater will be the Republican candidate. Still, Hayden is not withdrawing entirely. He is promoting the candidacy of his administrative assistant, Roy Elson, 37, for the Democratic nomination. In a statement drafted for distribution this week, Hayden says: "If you still care about how I think, join me in urging Roy Elson to run in my place...
...Hoosiers more comfortable with appeals to "law and order" and assurances that Kennedy wouldn't consider unilateral withdrawal from Vietnam. Kennedy, the man who as Attorney General helped put the most racist judges in the nation on various tribunals in the South, is much experienced in tempering freshness with "realism...