Word: coy
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...pundits, the most confused and contused victims of this year's roller-coaster politics are the writers and publishers of campaign books. Warehouses are crammed with tons of tomes outdated by events. Writers, editors and printers are scrambling to keep pace with the mercurial exits, abrupt entrances and coy waitings-in-wings of the 1968 candidates. Reporter Clark Mollenhoff of Cowles newspapers saw his George Romney: Mormon in Politics rolling off the presses just as the Michigander's presidential hopes were being buried in New Hampshire. Said Mollenhoff: "Now I know how it felt to build an Edsel...
...martyred brother aspires to our highest office, the earth's most awesome responsibility. An awkward, ungainly member of an attractive family, he nevertheless generates a perverse sort of magnetism and hypnotism on those who have forgotten or never knew. Obsessed yet pitiful, cynical yet credulous, intense yet coy, this distorted Kennedy may succeed in his warped crusade, but if he wins, we shall all lose...
With all the coy ferocity of a Ming dynasty dragon, a deftly carved ivory Guerrilla crouches, defending the motherland against the wicked U.S. air pirates. In Reception, a stalwart group of ivory workers, looking like a miniature convocation of George Segal's plastered everymen, hangs breathlessly on the open-ended words of a Susskindly Chairman Mao. As propaganda, China's purveyors of political wisdom have clearly produced sculpture that is less polemic than totemic, but as art for art's sake-the show has more chuckles than any fun house at the Venice Biennale...
...Javits, Hugh Scott, Edward Brooke and a chorus of others -counseled action. The general feeling was that Romney's departure had removed the last shred of justification for Rockefeller's judicious isolation. Senator Mark Hatfield of Oregon spoke for most of them: "He can't play coy. If he's going anywhere, he should get out on the track...
...saying; why doesn't he pound his fist on the table once in a while. Some intellectuals have even gone so far as to suggest that time would be better spent working for the election of Nelson Rockefeller. (Rockefeller, despite the silence he has maintained on Vietnam during his coy search for the Republican nomination over the past year, has a hawkish record which rivals that of Richard Nixon...