Word: albatross
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This will be a difficult task for men who have supported Nixon faithfully for so many years and one which they have sought to avoid at all costs. But by the middle of last week it was finally clear to many Republicans that Nixon had become "an albatross around their necks," and that unless they wanted to risk "complete disaster" in the 1974 Congressional elections they had to find a way of easing him out of the Presidency...
...liberal paper that exulted over Agnew's fall was the Berkshire Eagle. It called the resignation a "thunderclap of good news" that "removed from the proximity of the Oval Office a grotesque and long dead albatross whose reek was besmirching the American image everywhere." From the right wing, Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader Editor-Publisher William Loeb let stand a preresignation editorial that had blasted news leaks damaging to Agnew. In a brief updating statement, Loeb voiced his paper's "regret" that the "vicious distorters in the press now have a chance to get off the hook...
...WWII drama from the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Frank Gilroy. Jack Albertson won an Oscar for his supporting role as the father who welcomes his son home from the war, despite the mother's misgivings about the new-found independence of her son (Martin Sheen). Judy Collins sings "Albatross" and "Who Knows Where the Time Goes" for the sound track...
Sometimes Eugene O'Neill seems like the Ancient Mariner of drama. He holds us with his glittering eye. He harangues us with his banal tongue and his repetitive nightmare about the cursed albatross that haunts his fevered imagination: his family, the restive dead. His soap-opera prose alone ought to chloroform any ghost. But somehow O'Neill slings the albatross round our necks and makes us grieve and attend to his tale of fearful...
...Forced to run elsewhere, Mikva chose a newly created, relatively conservative district on Chicago's North Shore. Opposing him is Samuel H. Young, 49, a suburban attorney and political activist in search of his first public office. Young's campaign strategy is simple: to hang the McGovern albatross around Mikva's neck...