Word: denned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lyons is small and frail-looking; on the rush-hour subway home to West 81st Street, he is just another straphanger. He demonstrates his own unrecognizability by spotting people reading "The Lyons Den" and saying to them, just before he gets off the train, "Not a bad column." Sylvia is always home to greet him, and if she sees lipstick on his cheek, she knows he's having a good day. "I figure Charles Revson kissed him," she says...
...expresses the ideology of the Nixonian nation on dissent better than Historian Daniel Boorstin, whose book, The Decline of Radicalism, Nixon sometimes studies in a secluded den in the Executive Office Building. For an academic, Boorstin is almost ferocious about dissent: "Disagreement is the lifeblood of democracy, dissension is its cancer. Disagreers seek solutions to common problems, dissenters seek power for themselves." In a section on the "Rise of Minority Veto," which must be Agnew's text, he writes: "Small groups have more power than ever before . . . We are witnessing the explosive rebellion of small groups, who reject the American...