Word: breads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...image it conveyed of the Republican Party as the representative of Wall Street fat cats. "Mr. Nixon," he said, "would encourage those same speculative excesses that once before plunged this country into chaotic depression and brought vast losses to investors." In general, Humphrey worked hard to stress the traditional bread-and-butter issue, trying to revive past fears that a Republican Administration would "take it away." But Nov. 5 is probably too close for any of this to hurt Nixon appreciably. For one thing, it became clear that Hubert Humphrey's manful efforts to create a semblance of unity...
Fentress: There is undoubtedly something in the Humphrey campaign that you don't see in Nixon's. I think his campaign style-a combination of "Give 'em hell" and "Pour on the bread and butter"-is just catching on. Winning is another thing...
Humphrey aides profess to note a growing sense of disquiet in the nation over Nixon's above-the-battle posture. Moreover, the Vice President's emphasis on the old theme that the Democrats bring prosperity and the Republicans take it away may by paying off; bread and butter is still a tasty dish. Humphrey could find little consolation, however, in the 1948 Truman victory he is trying to emulate. According to a Gallup poll released this week, Humphrey trails Nixon by 15 points, 43 to 28. At roughly the same stage in 1948, a Roper poll showed Truman...
...height of their popularity. They were already rich, sure, but how many other performers turned their backs on that much money, adulation, and love...turned their backs on it because it wasn't, well, fun anymore? Fun! Don't they realize man has to sweat to earn his bread? Don't they realize that show business is a business, and that you have to get while the getting's good? Don't they know that life isn't all fun and games? that adults sometimes have to do things they don't like? For Chrissake, Brain, they're acting like...
...actual horrors; what is terrifying is the unchanging routine year after year. The horror is forgetting that your life?the only life you have?is destroyed, is in your willingness to forgive even some ugly swine of a warder, is in being obsessed with grabbing a big hunk of bread in the prison mess or getting a decent set of underwear when they take you to the bathhouse...