Word: directer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parties met in September to celebrate a crucial victory for which they claimed substantial credit. Paul Weyrich, director of the Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress, awarded gleaming brass plaques to Republican Senator Paul Laxalt of Nevada and Richard Viguerie, the movement's genius of the direct-mail campaign. Their combined efforts, exulted Weyrich, had defeated Jimmy Carter's bills for election-day registration and the public financing of senatorial elections, which would have bolstered the Democratic vote. The plaques were inscribed with the tribute: FOR LEADERSHIP IN PRESERVING FREE ELECTIONS...
Their chief tool, in fact, is not new at all: the U.S. Postal Service. Through direct-mail bombardment, the right alerts its friends to a particular cause and adds to its converts. In this letter-box war for American minds, the top general is Viguerie, who is considered by friend and foe alike the "godfather" of the New Right. At his office in Falls Church, Va., some 300 people crank out 100 million letters a year (200 million in an election year) to 5 million conservatives whose names are on computer tapes. Says Viguerie: "The left controls all communications except...
...Songs From the Briarpatch, recorded live at Vanguard studios, effectively captures the dynamism of Paxton as a performer. He differs from his Village contemporaries in his master of direct communication with his audience; he borrows neither Bob Dylan's detachment nor Phil Ochs' alcoholic trance. Rather, he is akin to Joni Mitchell, who cajoles her audience to sing along because "the more out-of-tune voices on a song, the better." Paxton, too, encourages participation, seeking to bridge the gap between artist and idolator. And by explaining the motivation behind the composition of each song, Paxton secures an Intellectual bond...
...based transnational corporations have greatly aided South African industrialization. U.S. involvement in South Africa has grown especially rapidly in the last ten years, as apartheid has been more and more strictly enforced. Direct U.S. investment more than doubled between 1969 and 1975, to reach $1.6 billion in 1975, or 40 per cent of all U.S. investment in Africa. If indirect investment--channelled through Europe and Canada--were included, this figure would be much higher. More than 300 U.S. companies are involved. But 13 of them--including seven of the ten largest in America--account for three quarters...
...restructuring of the board would enable the University to exert direct influence over the magazine's business and advertising affairs, such as subscription drives, Cronin said...