Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The reason for the sudden decline in popularity is McGovern's chairmanship of a special commission investigating-and finding-abuses in the selection of convention delegates. Born of the Chicago convention's tumult and disillusionment, the commission was set up by the party leadership as a sop to...
Unhasty Improvements. The Bundeswehr does have some friends of the kind that obviates the need for many enemies: the far-right National Democratic Party of Adolf von Thadden. In his convention speech at Stuttgart last month, Von Thadden spent 60 out of 90 minutes talking sympathetically about the Bundeswehr and...
That kind of nose-thumbing rejection of institutional convention-in the year of the most profound academic disturbances in American history-was more or less predictable. So was the disruption at Harvard's graduation, where Bruce Allen, a Students for a Democratic Society member, was hustled off the stage...
Sir: Apropos your interesting story on the conflict-of-loyalty problem of military chaplains [May 30], may I point out that a year ago (May 18, 1968), the American Jewish Congress urged that military chaplains be replaced with civilian religious counselors receiving no pay from the Government and possessing no...
The printed word is not en route to oblivion. That reassuring information comes from Dr. Marshall McLuhan, who has been prophesying the demise of reading for years (and doing his best to hurry it into an early grave by writing some of the most perishable prose in memory). "The book...