Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After 166 years, the Disciples of Christ last week conceded that they are, in fact, a Protestant denomination. In Kansas City, at the Disciples' annual convention, 4,700 delegates overwhelmingly approved the principles of a new constitution that will transform the movement from a loose grouping of autonomous congregations...
Third Writer: "Hey, you could have a convention of people who got parts of her." (Delivery boy enters with beer and sandwiches. Schlatter pays the bill, pauses to compute tip.)
Home of the Heave. Yet it is Mailer who most impressively comes to grips with the convention in passages of intuition and eloquence. With his customary sense of apocalyptic drama, he declares that "the country was in a throe, a species of eschatological heave." It may seem obvious, but Mailer...
Mellowed Nixon. Like many of the commentators on the left this year, Mailer is much more charitable toward the Republican Convention than the Democratic. He was surprised himself at his diminished hatred for Nixon. The man still suffered from slickness. "His ability to slide off the question and return with...
Mailer felt a wrenching change in his own politics. It came to him when he was waiting for the Rev. Ralph Abernathy to show up for a press conference. "It was a simple emotion and very unpleasant to him," writes Mailer. "He was getting tired of Negroes and their rights...