Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least of all Mario ("Will you please stop calling me Mr. Procaccino?"), would dispute the Democratic candidate's credentials to lead the revolt of the average man. He is as common as the machine clubhouse, a journeyman politician who worked hard, if without special distinction, and waited his turn. As he insists on informing people on every street corner, he is "not pretty" ? a useful attribute, he feels, in his war with Lindsay and the Beautiful Peo ple. He wears electric-blue suits and watermelon-pink shirts and in speech and gesture accentuates the ethnic...
...contest, saying some of the same things as Procaccino, with more thought and less vehemence, and with a more traditionally conservative cast. His presence underscores the fact that the main issues in the campaign have almost erased party lines. The Democratic and Republican candidates have far more in common with each other than with the independent Lindsay, who in turn seeks votes from both parties...
...moment of the end of the world should not be one of despair any more than the moment of your individual death should be. In fact, if we're all around at the time, we'll all enjoy in common the metaphysical glory of transition into another state of energy. Also the end of the world will have a great meaning. It will mean that it happened, as my meaning is that I exist...
...Boston area, Oct. 15 will include a 3:30 p.m. rally on Boston Common, featuring as speakers McGovern, Howard Zinn, and labor leader Cacsar Chavez. "But the rally is not a prime concern," Zorza said. "The real significance of Oct. 15 will come with the vast involvement with the communities of Boston which we are planning." The movement is completely decentralized, with different activities planned at each participating campus...
David Rose, the president of David Rose and Associates of New York, promised representatives of the threatened community that he "would be happy to work within your guidelines, provided that everything is tempered by common sense...