Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like everyone else, the Democratic politicians were watching Miami Beach -mostly to see how the ticket chosen by the Republicans would affect their prospects. The Democrats are bedeviled by the stubborn problems of the war abroad and strife at home, what appears to be a nationwide drift to the right, and an overwhelmingly unpopular Administration...
Will he assert his independence? The answer depends partly on how the typical delegate was chosen. Amid the bewildering variety of state election laws, he could be hand-picked by his Governor, elected by a state convention, or selected by a tiny elite of state party committeemen. In only 15 states do registered voters elect delegates in primaries, which may be more or less open; another three states, including New York, pick some delegates by primaries while party leaders name others. Whatever the mechanics, unless the delegate is an insurgent, it is highly likely that he goes to the convention...
...votes.* There are other dangers as well. If the House and Senate are controlled by different parties and vote along party lines, the President and Vice President could conceivably be of different parties. Even more unsettling is the possibility that the House might be deadlocked. Then the Vice President chosen by the Senate-presuming it could reach a decision-would become the acting President...
...would be substantially unbearable treated in the context of everyday life--all films would resemble Judgment At Nuremberg. And, just as Poe and Hawthorne made their statements through the heightened reality of romance, the master film-makers are invariably liberated by the specialized contexts and specific characteristics of their chosen genres...
...forces almost crush Enderby, who is too blind to differentiate between them. But Enderby withstands the buffets of circumstance and wins by doggedly avoiding every intrusion of reality. The author attempts to compensate for Enderby's isolationism by stressing his integrity--Enderby is loyal to the lord he has chosen, his own neurosis-ridden mind and body. He serves them without question and by some automatic leveling process molds the outside world to a non-threatening mass of only occasionally active stimuli...