Word: bearers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...background rubs off on his sophisticated, often colloquial poetic style. His deep appeal lies in a rare faculty for sensing-and transmitting-the doubts and yearnings of a generation that has lost its illusions and is beginning to find its voice. Evtushenko is this generation's flag-bearer, a daring young man, but not to the point of martyrdom...
...arraignments for the trial of ten erstwhile quiz masters were conducted in a Manhattan court. The great Hank Bloomgarden ($98,500) was there, and crop-haired Elfrida von Nardroff, whose $220,500 winnings were the highest of all. But every eye in court was on Charles Lincoln Van Doren, bearer of one of the great names in American letters...
...powers to keep the U.S. in step with Europe's burgeoning Common Market, Kansas' spunky Alf M. London, 74, expressed emphatic support for the Kennedy proposals. Did he feel strongly enough to quit the Republican party if it fought freer trade? Well, blurted the 1936 G.O.P. standard-bearer who was buried by F.D.R. in the biggest political avalanche in U.S. history: "With the state of the world today, I'd be very much tempted...
Home last week after a ten-nation tour of Latin America, Presidential Envoy Adlai Stevenson was the bearer of uneasy tidings. The leaders of Latin America's democratic governments were still in a state of "mental shock" over the Cuban disaster; U.S. prestige was in sharp decline. Though everyone recognized the danger of Castro's Communist Cuba, the bearded dictator loomed so large across the Caribbean that no one was willing to join in strong, concerted action against him. The one immediate hope, reported Stevenson, was a mild plan, advanced by Colombia, for a call to Castro...
...home or on the road, Barry Goldwater is conscious that he rides an ever growing popular wave-one that could conceivably make him the party's presidential standard-bearer in 1964. New G.O.P. Chairman William Miller warmly suggested a Goldwater-Rockefeller ticket in the next campaign if Richard Nixon does not run. But Goldwater is quite aware of the handicaps he would have to overcome. As a champion of states' rights, Goldwater has paid court to white Southern Democrats and has helped make Republicans respectable south of the Mason-Dixon line-but at the real risk of earning...