Word: absents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campaign without well-defined national issues. The social questions that dominated the past two elections?law-and-order, welfare, and busing to integrate schools?were absent for the most part. Instead, inflation and the recession withered voters' attitudes toward Republican incumbents. Explains Emil Gutoski, a Republican precinct captain in Cicero, Ill., a blue-collar suburb of Chicago: "When people are hurting, they vote the opposition." Adds Political Demographer Ben Wattenberg: "In tunes of economic trouble, this country still regards the Democratic Party as the one that's more for the little guys...
Factional Friction. The Republican leadership, too, will experience new strains. Now thoroughly outgunned, it faces some factional friction within its own ranks. Arizona's John Rhodes, the minority leader, won comfortably but has been too often absent from his floor duties to suit some colleagues. The third-ranking House leader, John Anderson of Illinois, probably will be challenged by conservatives who resent his sharp attacks on Nixon...
...November 16, over 300 students at SUBR marched to the president's office. He told the students that he would go down town to see about their grievances. While he was absent, the students calmly remained at his office. Office workers and security guards continued their regular business throughout the building. No seizure had taken place. About fifteen minutes later, police, state troopers and Sheriff's deputies stormed the campus. A state trooper tossed a tear gas canister into a large crowd of black students gathered on the steps of the administration building. The remaining officers fired indiscriminately into...
...college--get a job as a clerk, you'll meet a nice man..." wash over us with the indistinct familiarity of a TV ad we've heard a hundred times. It is obvious why this is not good theater: the characters are merely pasteboard stand-ins for the absent playwright. And while it may be less obvious, it is equally true that neither is this good politics. Rather than bring us closer to the truth, the play helps us keep it at arm's length. The thrust it makes into our lives is precisely that which we are most adept...
...Anniversary. Papadopoulos was whisked off by missile boat to exile on the island of Kea, 40 miles southeast of Athens. Four of his associates, including former Deputy Premiers Stylianos Pattakos and Nikolas Makarezos, were also on board, charged with similar crimes. Absent and wanted was the brigadier general who ousted Papadopoulos last year, Dimitrios Ioannidis. At week's end Ioannidis was still at large...