Word: drawling
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...classic public combats between honest legislators and honest, honest lagos; the immemorial private confabs between men with one card up their sleeve and men with two; a burly Ed Begley and a determined Richard Kiley resisting the Devil; Kevin McCarthy's rabble-rousing; and the fanged drawl and deadly swoops of Henry Jones's Southern Senator. Advise and Consent never once cuts below the surface, but it does often get behind the scenes...
Massachusetts. With his Early American homeliness and diffident Yankee drawl, blueblooded Leverett Saltonstall, 68, strikes any New Englander as being "as comfortable as an old shoe." Carefully eschewing brilliance, Republican Saltonstall in his 16 years in the Senate has won the admiration even of Massachusetts Democrats for his solid performance on the Armed Services and Small Business Committees and for his unflagging drive to bring new industry into his state...
Church-or Else. Billy stabbed at Spanish with a thunderous "Christ died for you for usted!", and the word somehow acquired a Dixie drawl. But when it came time for him to invite his listeners down, there was no doubt about his effectiveness. "I like religion" said senora Gloria de Rodriguez, 34. "I saw Billy Graham on television, and I decided I wanted to come and see him in person, I prefer the way he preaches to he way the Catholic priests preach" Like her there were plenty of nominal Catholics in he Garden. "The priest never said we shouldn...
...speak tenderly of babies and bad women and sad men, and speak up for dreams, and speak out against war, and be often crackerbarrel and occasionally caustic. America has always fancied down-to-earth figures who look up at the stars and whose voices can both ring out and drawl, and in the 82-year-old Sandburg it has a notable specimen...
...station in Austin. "Woody can find anything from lost luggage to a masseur," explained Lady Bird. "I call him my vice president in charge of strange activities." But there was no doubt about who was running the road show. All the way West. Lady Bird exercised her soft Southern drawl delivering feline vignettes on the people the girls would meet. ("She's never been a friend and never will be, but I hope she will work for the Democratic Party.") And all the way. outspoken Eunice Shriver and casual, quick-witted Ethel Kennedy quietly took notes. By the time...