Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Adlai Stevenson once said of Marietta Tree, "When you find someone closely identified with the intellectual and aristocratic communities who is also a positive, active, working Democrat, it tends to encourage everyone in the party." Mrs. Tree, 47, is a willowy...
Last week Loyal Democrat Tree got another reward from her grateful party...
...Johnson, against 359 papers, with 9,000,000 circulation for Goldwater. Johnson's percentage of 42.4% came nowhere near the 67% registered by Eisenhower in the magazine's 1952 poll, but it was a long way from the mere 14% support that went that year to Democrat Adlai Stevenson -who understandably raised the charge of a "one-party press." This year's tabulation demolished Stevenson's accusation with statistical authority...
...biggest city had some of its most fascinating House races. In Manhattan's 17th ("Silk Stocking") District, where everybody wears nylons, able, articulate Republican John V. Lindsay, 42, spurned Goldwater and captured a fourth term by a 2-to-l margin over the combined totals of Democratic-Liberal Eleanor Clark French and the Conservative Party's Kieran O'Doherty. By bagging the biggest G.O.P. victory in New York, Lindsay became a voice to be listened to on the national scene. Democrat Adam Clayton Powell, the nation's worst Congressman according to a poll of Washington correspondents...
What had happened was not so much Johnson but Goldwater. Though the Arizona Senator's candidacy has no doubt destroyed the Republican Party, it has also incapacitated the Democratic Party by infusing it with so much love, so much consensus and so much ideological mushiness that no one will ever again be able to mean by "I am a Democrat" anything more than "I was against Goldwater...