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Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Trio of Varsity Swimmers To Compete in NCAA Meet | 3/22/1969 | See Source »

Kenneth Tynan once described the critic as a backseat driver who knows the way but can't drive a car. Unfortunately his definition does not explain someone like Susan Sontag--a critic with no sense of direction...

Author: By Beth Edelmann, | Title: For or Against Interpretation; Is There Really Any Question? | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

...When I began my campaign, people told me two things: Don't bring in a lot of SNCC's with their beards and long hair, and don't try to educate your voters." Julian Bond sat slouched in the backseat of a car driving back from an unsuccessful trip to see a group of Negro prisoners in a state farm at Reidsville, Georgia, and talked about his campaign for the Georgia House...

Author: By Anne P. Buxton, | Title: Julian Bond | 1/20/1966 | See Source »

...reasoning that the buyers' basic impulse was to get away from it all, at a minimum expense. But in the past five years, more and more people have more and more money, and price no longer seems an object. Furthermore, the little woman has become a backseat helmsman, and she demands all the comforts of home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: Plug-In Boats | 9/3/1965 | See Source »

...Backseat Drivers. The biggest advantage of pickup campers over trailers, aside from their greater maneuverability, is that passengers may loll comfortably in back while tooling along the highway (riding in a trailer is forbidden by many states as too dangerous). This is a boon for the driver too, since backseat drivers can only communicate with him by banging on the window or installing an intercom-though one manufacturer is considering making a truck with a roll-down back window that would allow passengers to crawl from living room to pilot's compartment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: The In Way to Camp Out | 8/28/1964 | See Source »

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