Word: caps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...oppose what they see as misguided administration policy at Princeton, the disgruntled grads have formed an organization called the Concerned Alumni of Princeton (CAP). The counter-alumni group publishes Prospect, a handsome 32-page, trimonthly magazine that is headed by Jones and is directed to raising issues that members say are ignored by the Princeton Alumni Weekly. So far $200,000 in alumni contributions has rolled in to finance the magazine...
...dissident alumni movement started in the late 1960s, when conservative grads and students began to organize to counter the antiwar movement and politicizing of the campuses. The groups are motivated in about equal measure by political conservatism and nostalgia, and by a strong tinge of social snobbery. One CAP appeal for support wistfully calls for the "early consolidation-not of the Old Princeton, not of what is being recognized as the New Princeton, but of the Best of All Possible Princetons." What that might mean is unclear. What it most certainly does not mean is girls in the dorm...
...keep the cap on the bottle" by encouraging his associates to tell no more of the truth than they had to in public statements or informal testimony...
...Mitchell [John Mitchell, former Attorney General]. They're going to say now what about Haldeman, what about . . . the rest? . . . I want somebody to say, now look, here are the facts. Of the White House people [unintelligible]. There are no other higher-up. The White House [unintelligible]. Put a cap...
...vocabularies were legendary. Truman's language, though earthy, had a funny, folksy flair that Nixon's lacks. As for Lyndon Johnson, his command of invective was a constant source of purple surprise. But unlike Nixon, he did not mechanically spew out obscenities; he used them pointedly to cap his stories. L.B.J. could make people chuckle with his inventive cussing and barnyard phrases, and those who were not afraid of him rather admired what Newsman Peter Lisagor once called his "rich, almost lyrical, Pedernales patois...