Word: comments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...theme that titillates with dark allusions to the present. Then there are Drury's characters, a confusion of ideological wind-up toys carelessly slapped down to accommodate the easily distracted. There are the plots that are not plots but crisis situations on "which each character is obliged to comment, regardless of the triviality of his contribution. Above all, Drury writes the most impenetrable prose this side of a Japanese motorcycle manual rendered in English: "They all laughed, somewhat ruefully, but dauntless still; not noticing the flurry and excitement and sudden bustling all about that in the jostling, police-held...
...major figure has exploited the issue more assiduously or effectively than Alabama's George Wallace, who has made startling headway among U.S. voters as a result. Though Richard Nixon airily skirted the issue last week when he was asked to comment on the confrontation between police and protesters during the Democratic Convention in Chicago, he, too, is regarded by millions of voters as a strong law-and-order man who, as President, would "do something" about rising crime rates, unsafe streets, noisy demonstrators and restless blacks. Hubert Humphrey is desperately attempting to straddle the issue, though in the text...
...Vice President is counting on Nixon to commit a damaging blunder at some point during the fall, or at least to campaign so timidly, in the hope of avoiding errors, that he will fail to generate sufficient enthusiasm to win. Thus, after Nixon carefully avoided comment on a number of touchy issues during a televised interview in Chicago last week, Humphrey happily said: "I remember when Tom Dewey thought he could glide through a campaign full of love and kisses. All he thought he had to do was smile. He was wrong...
...rules will not take effect until private and commercial flyers have had a chance to comment on them at public hearings in Washington. If preliminary reactions last week are any clue, some comments will be angry. Private flyers, in particular, are incensed by the fact that the FAA intends to bar planes from the Golden Triangle pattern in bad weather unless they have a second pilot, can maintain an airspeed of 172 m.p.h. and carry electronic equipment to acknowledge radar signals of FAA controllers...
...proposal of a role for the National Liberation Front in the Saigon government* as akin to putting "a fox in a chicken coop," he said two weeks ago that he and Kennedy "came to have remarkably similar views on Viet Nam." Four ex-Kennedy aides called the comment "false and misleading." Some of Humphrey's oratory was embarrassingly banal. "Every American," he intoned solemnly before a letter carriers' convention, "is at least entitled to have a postal address...