Word: broader
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finance political campaigns-honestly, adequately and from a far broader base-is surely one of U.S. democracy's biggest unsolved problems as it enters another presidential election year. As the nation grows, candidates must spend more and more to reach more and more people; while TV now puts office seekers in every living room, the enormous cost drains party budgets. Given most voters' financial apathy, the net result is a qualification for office unspecified in the Constitution: a candidate must now be rich or have rich friends or run the risk of making himself beholden to big contributors...
...scholars recommended continued prosecution of the war, though without escalation and possibly with experimental de-escalations to win broader support for it at home. As they noted, "the outcome is being decided on the streets and in the homes of America as much as in the jungles of Viet Nam. Both the Government and its critics should begin to face up to these facts...
...Herald Prunes. Except on records, religious rock is not really so new or unusual, as the music in a number of churches around the country demonstrates. What makes the Prunes' Mass in F Minor significant is its heralding of an even broader trend: the increasing use of extended classical forms by rock musicians. Half of a new LP by the British duo Chad Stuart and Jeremy Clyde is devoted to The Progress Suite, a breezy pastiche that gibes at complacency and hypocrisy. The Asso ciation have begun to perform their liturgical-cum-martial Requiem for the Masses-included...
...longer he spoke, the broader his attack became. He started by specifically chastising House Republicans for votes on particular issues, then expanded his assault to include the "old Republican buggy [that] can go only one way and that is backwards, downhill." Johnson enjoyed himself immensely. On the way back to Washington and in subsequent appearances signing consumer-protection legislation, he was as perky and peppy as his mutt Yuki...
...stingy Jack. Such comics as Danny Kaye, Red Skelton and Jackie Gleason shine best in sketches. Many of today's young monologists, in the style of the late Lenny Bruce, specialize in acutely perceived, often bitter commentary, not to say four-letter words. Hope's comedy is broader, less original in viewpoint, but it is almost always clean, just as topical, more deftly timed, and tuned more to the sensibilities of his audiences...