Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bob Dylan was back, having recovered from a serious motorcycle accident, and his album John Wesley Harding was climbing the charts. The Beatles returned from India to release their imaginative "White Album." In The Graduate, the year's top-grossing film, Dustin Hoffman embodied the anxiety of a generation. The...
-- Chicago policemen as big as beer trucks thundering through tear-gas- poisoned air and clubbing with nightsticks. The answering, taunting obscenities and rage, and after that the McLuhan-wise chorus from those being clubbed: "The whole world is watching!" Then, through the death stench of the Chicago stockyards, inside the...
Kennedy's funeral left the nation numb -- but not for long. Once again, confrontation took over. Kennedy's death widened the cleavage between those who still saw redemption from the country's agonies within conventional politics and those who wanted to knock the system down. The two sides slouched toward...
Few fiction writers would have dared to imagine such a debacle. Outside the convention hall: the massed outrage of the counterculture -- antiwar activists, Viet Cong supporters, Yippies (who brought along their own presidential candidate, a porker named Pigasus). Within: the political machine that rumbled forward to confirm Hubert Horatio Humphrey...
The first hurdle of the upcoming gubernatorial campaign is February 4, when state Democratic caucuses elect delegates to the party's issues convention, held this spring. Prospective candidates' organizational strength is typically gauged by their convention showing.