Word: abe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part because of this sympathy voters have confidence in Muskie. After Richard Nixon, people want a President they can trust and the long lanks. Lincolnesque Muskie ("Trust Muskie" was his slogan in '72) does his best to remind voters of "Honest Abe." Surely, Democrats predict, if the public has a choice in 1976 between a new Lincoln and a used Ford, voters will select the newer model; clearly. Democrats reason, a car that hugs the middle of the road will be more popular than the used Ford brought to us by the man whom no one would trust to sell...
...politics are not those of a country but of a continent, most politicians become knowledgeable in the competing pressures of society, and learn to mediate among them (that is their real specialty). Ella Grasso, the new Governor of Connecticut, says that working in an earlier campaign for Senator Abe Ribicoff taught her "the importance, the integrity of compromise." In Washington, living among interests whose agents are sleepless and persistent (lobbyists for unions, industries, veterans, teachers, doctors), a Congressman rarely hears the voice of the ordinary, unorganized voter-until that voter decides to become angry with him. Often when a Congressman...
...time 15 eagles were perched in the Oval Office. Eagles on the rug, on the flagpoles, on the walls. Their population and prominence have been considerably reduced. The pervasive influence in the decor now is Abraham Lincoln. There is a statuette of young Abe standing serenely on a pedestal against the wall. Looking out over the office from the bookshelves is a bust of Lincoln sculpted by Leonard Volk in about 1880. This is the creased and concerned President who held the nation together. In the hall just outside the office is a larger bust of Lincoln, a melancholy visage...
...working for New York. "Clyde never lied to me then," says Hunter, "and he never lied to me now." Add to Kluttz the appeal of the Yankee heritage ("Just walking into Yankee Stadium, the chills run through you," says Hunter) and other assorted blandishments, including a letter from Mayor Abe Beame. No wonder Catfish was intent on trading Oakland's mod pastels for New York's dignified pin stripes...
...Abe has been compared with Laing in an interesting way; one of his great defenders in Japan said that "his attitude is similar to R.D. Laing's--that neurosis is not a disease, but a sign of intelligence being used." Perhaps, then, Abe has written an intelligent novel...