Word: conventioneers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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It was a quiet national news scene last week-all the way through Monday morning. At that point, things began to happen. Former California Governor Ronald Reagan convened his expected press conference at noon E.D.T., then proceeded to stun his party and the nation with the unexpected: his bold, perhaps...
The Big Apple Convention
Until the Democratic Convention I was very skeptical about the men who would lead our country. But Jimmy Carter's acceptance speech proves he can give the disheartened and discontented young people of this country a United States to be proud of for the next generation.
There is, in fact, only one article in this month's [MORE] that achieves what the magazine proposes to do: systematically criticize the media. There's this conspiracy, you see; the role of television in our society, according to John Leonard, The New York Times' roving cultural correspondent, is to...
A nominating convention is sort of Ex-Lax for the body politic, a theater of ourselves, a legitimizing ceremony... We know that what we see is a 'media-event' and are smug in the knowledge. If Walter Cronkite takes it seriously, then we don't have to. His seriousness absolves...