Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since his defeat at the Democratic Convention last summer, intimates have sensed in him a deep desire to retreat al most entirely from public prominence...
...galvanic effect on the nation's campuses, where until recently, McCarthy had enjoyed al most deified status. In an editorial entitled "Not So Clean," the Harvard Crimson said the resignation "served to strengthen the impression held in not a few quarters that McCarthy has gone over the political deep...
...slightly in the big leather swivel chair. Occasionally he throws a salute to his grey-faced mother Mary and two brothers, Munir and Adel. The windows of the courtroom are sealed with quarter-inch steel armor plate, and the lighting overhead accentuates his dark stubble, arching cheek bones and deep-set eyes...
Early in his tenure, this lack mattered little. After Kennedy's murder, the country needed a figure to rally round. Then it needed a responsible alternative to Goldwater. Johnson mistook happenstance for deep, wide support and even for the affection he craved. "I'm sure glad," he would say in those days, "we got rid of that image that nobody likes Lyndon...
Wasp power is obscured by the divisions natural to a majority, which keep Wasps from coalescing into the kind of cohesive blocs that other groups have formed. The Republican Party is preeminently Wasp; yet it has been rent for generations by deep-seated disagreements. Norman Mailer characterized the alienated delegates lusting for liberal blood at the 1964 convention. In a typical Mailer caricature, he evoked a "Wasp Mafia where the grapes of wrath were stored. Not for nothing did the white Anglo-Saxon Protestants have a five-year subscription to Reader's Digest and National Geographic, high colonies...