Word: attending
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unhappiest Democrats these days is Lyndon Johnson, who sits on his Texas ranch recovering from his heart attack, seething in frustration at the turn his party has taken, and perhaps feeling a bit like King Lear. He would love to attend the convention, but refused Democratic National Committee Chairman Lawrence O'Brien's personal invitation. Johnson knows that his presence there would only open the old party wounds, reminding everyone that he represented what McGovern wants to repudiate. "Lyndon just doesn't carry any weight in the party," says a longtime political associate, "and he knows...
...affairs on the Indian subcontinent cannot be fully put in order without Bangladesh's Prime Minister, Sheik Mujibur Rahman, who has declined to attend the summit until Pakistan recognizes his country. Bhutto last week may have been preparing the way for recognition when he observed that Pakistan would become "odd man out" at the United Nations this fall if it still refuses recognition to Dacca...
Marquand was somewhat like his heroes. Born in very comfortable circumstances, he liked to point out that his family had been gentry in the old town of Newburyport, Mass., since 1732. But his feckless father lost all his money by the time John was 14. He was forced to attend public high school, endure four years of Harvard without benefit of a club, and start his climb in the social world as a writer of magazine serials. By middle age, he was a smart, stingy, sardonic man who had perfected a mellifluous prose style and the art of making money...
...remains Miss, not Ms., and none of the Women's Caucus "flying squads" appeared in Flatbush to stump for her. The campaign was almost purely one of issues -and age. Says Miss Holtzman: "I was a constituent of his, and I never saw him. He never seemed to attend any of the local meetings." With two years as a state committeewoman behind her, Liz Holtzman sailed into Celler, buttonholing anyone who would listen at supermarkets and subway stops. She attacked him on the basis of absenteeism, and pointed out that he did not even keep an office in Brooklyn...
...meeting adjourned without considering whether to picket classrooms or to demand a release from exam or class obligations. This was largely in remembrance of the fiasco that followed the 1970 strike when students dissipated their energies by trying to persuade classmates not to attend class instead of engaging in constructive antiwar activities...