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Word: destinarian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1987-1987
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...unconsciously, tried to imitate John Kennedy. He has brushed back his hair with the same gesture that Kennedy used, walked with the same gait, held his hand in his jacket pocket with the thumb sticking out, just as J.F.K. did. He has a penchant for some of the high destinarian rhetoric that Kennedy used, the appeal to a visionary new generation. Hart kept using the first person plural in his press releases. His campaign sounded a note of the bogusly grand. Hart is Kennedy typed on the eighth carbon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Kennedy Going on Nixon | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

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