Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John McCormack: "I like a man who is loyal. What's wrong with rewarding your friends?" The most memorable characterization was offered by Walter McLaughlin, president of the Massachusetts Bar Association, which did an about-face and decided to support Morrissey after twice opposing his nomination. "His educational background," said McLaughlin, "has been pilloried from post to post...
Unpleasant Word. The American Bar Association sent three officials to pillory some more. They pointed to conspicuous gaps in Morrissey's background as lawyer and judge. Concluded Bernard Segal, former chairman of the A.B.A.'s federal judiciary committee: "We have not had any case in which those factors are so lacking as in the case of Judge Morrissey...
...younger, and that number will shoot up as the great war-baby crop continues to turn 21. No party can ignore the shift in the political center of gravity, for around this center will swing political success in the future. To be sure, parental conditioning plus ethnic background still give many youngsters their political set. But in the greatest numbers ever, young people who feel no party allegiance are becoming part of the electorate. They are mostly unencumbered by the political possessions and prejudices born of the Depression and its New Deal remedies. Technical, managerial and professional skills entitle...
Such idiosyncrasies of taste make the export business as tricky as it is lucrative. The Flintstones are No. 1 in Sweden and the favorite viewing of Rhodesia's Sir Roy Welensky, but they were ignominiously reduced to background characters in a fly-spray commercial in Italy. Perry Como hit a clinker on Germany's Infratest ratings, Andy Williams on Britain's TAM's. And even blockbuster Bonanza was clobbered by Rawhide in Korea. Another complication in foreign-syndication sales is that U.S. shows come in awkward lengths (a half-hour program has only 26 minutes...
...obvious but inoffensive. He discussed executive responsibility during Presidential disability and said he wasn't surprised that Johnson was doing so much from the hospital. "There's a difference in the nature of the men. Johnson's restless; he always wanted to be doing everything. Eisenhower had a military background, so he delegated jobs...