Word: birching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sunday morning bright and early Streets of maple, oak and birch Populate themselves with people On their quiet way to church...
...national connection besides Wallace is John Wayne: he has a poster of Wayne in a cowboy outfit endorsing the Young Americans for Freedom and a postcard addressed to "Dapper" hanging on his office wall. A friend of YAF "When they were kids," O'Neill says he dislikes the John Birch Society although "a lot of the things they said are coming true." During the day I spent with him his only unsolicited comment on national politics concerned Earl Butz: "He shouldn't have resigned, he was only telling the truth...
...much the national mood has changed. "The economic center of gravity of the nation is moving away from programs like the Great Society; it's shifting in a more conservative direction. I think this analysis is sustained by the fact that liberals such as Morris Udall, Fred Harris and Birch Bayh didn't do very well in the Democratic primaries, while Hubert Humphrey and Ted Kennedy sat them out; it is sustained by the fact that the Republicans have had two men in contention for the nomination who are basically conservative...
There were other emblems of modernity too. The birch-and-canvas aircraft that look to us like trembling old dragonflies but were the Concordes of their time seldom became a painter's subject: Delaunay made them so with Homage to Blériot, 1913-14. It is a marvelously aerated image of flight. The painted discs that had become his signature function variously as wheels, radial engines, sunbursts and air force roundels; a red propeller flaps, and a biplane hangs like an angel in a mandorla of color. No athlete himself, Delaunay was fascinated by organized spectator sport-itself...
...John Birch Society is not just another action group against the Communists. It is truly a movement to restore decency, with something to offer the American people that is solid and lasting. In imitation of its namesake, its members have a philosophy that promotes morality and sound thinking, builds character, and encourages noble deeds. We want 400,000 members who believe in exactly these qualities...