Word: cesare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conventional view that it is a "media state," reachable mainly by radio, television and print. The possibility that McGovern's drive could pay off even in Humphrey's natural constituency among minorities was bolstered by two impressive new endorsements of McGovern-from Coretta King and Cesar Chavez...
McGovern has had to waffle a bit on the touchy subject of gains won by farm workers. Seated under a walnut tree on a grape and plum farm near Del Rey, McGovern was questioned by wary fruit growers about his support of Cesar Chavez, the farm-labor leader who endorsed McGovern last week. "I'm not in a position to say every single aspect of Chavez's program is 100% right," he ventured. "I supported him because I thought he turned the public spotlight on the plight of the farm workers." One of the newsmen following McGovern quipped...
...Rhonda Fleming, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Virginia Grey, June Haver, Hildegarde, Bob Hope, Sammy Kaye, Lainie Kazan, Dorothy Lamour, Art Linkletter, Fred MacMurray, Gordon MacRae, Tony Martin, Virginia Mayo, Ann Miller, Mary Ann Mobley, Terry Moore, Ken Murray, Lloyd Nolan, Hugh O'Brian, John Payne, Walter Pidgeon, Gene Raymond, Cesar Romero, Red Skelton, Julie Sommars, James Stewart, Rudy Vallee, Hal Wallis, John Wayne...
Actually, there was one major disappointment which even the most casual observer couldn't fail to note. Jane Fonda did not cite Merleau-Ponte or Cesar Chavez or George McGovern for inspiring her winning performance in Klute, didn't chastise the hypocrites who would never have backed Chaplin when he was under fire--didn't really say much of anything. She simply thanked the Academy and walked off the stage, showing far more class than to indulge in the liberal sanctimony which has marked the affair in years past. I hope she boycotted the post-awards parties as well...
They dress in everything from miniskirts to medieval mantles. They do everything from classroom teaching to police work. One has a job with Cesar Chavez, another with Ralph Nader. There is a deputy attorney general and an Air Force lieutenant. They live in inner-city slums, in posh suburbs, on farms, even in the desert. They come singly, by the dozen and in battalions. They are the new American nuns who, in the decade since the Second Vatican Council first provided the inspiration, have streamed out of their centuries-old enclosures into the modern world...