Word: rotten
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Where once-so literature and legend have it-there existed in Manhattan waterfront saloons where savage jack-tars gargled on rotten whisky, and at the same time there were gilded salons where dissipating patricians drank champagne from slippers, most such extremes have disappeared, and the nightclubs of New York today are relentlessly middle class. With some outstanding exceptions, they are also for the birds, including night owls and predatory hawks. And the birds go there...
Medicine & Baptism. Riou's competitors are voodoo witch doctors, called bocors, whom some islanders still prefer. A few days ago, Riou barely saved an old man's life by stripping a voodoo bandage of rotten leaves from his dangerously infected foot and applying proper treatment. There are other superstitions. Once Riou asked a mother whether she had given her seriously sick baby medicine the hospital had provided. "No, Father," she replied. "Why not?" he asked. The cryptic reply: "He's not baptized yet." Haitian peasants consider a child before baptism only a brute animal on which medicines...
...campaign, then, for this group of enlightened observers, has been a rotten one; it has shed little light on the issues, and there hasn't been enough heat to make the absence of light tolerable. To them, Kennedy's apparent success is undeserved; his case may be a good one, but he has not made it well at all. Nixon, on the other hand, has been his old demagogic self, but he has made no catastrophic blunders...
...electorate, one might as well admit without cynicism, is usually swayed by things other than reason. This is why, to the Harvard community, this has been a rotten campaign. This is why Eisenhower defeated the candidate of reason in 1952 and 1956. This is how (to return to the original question) the next President will win the election...
This, it seems, is the way elections go, and yes, it was a rotten campaign...