Word: electable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heard a Georgetown University political analyst expound on America's deteriorating position in the world. As Hanley recalls, "I went home to St. Louis and sat down alone in my office and listed all the candidates from both parties who could conceivably run. Never mind if we could elect him, but who would have the best chance of changing the situation? It was clear as a bell to me that it was John Connally. I sent him a check and said, 'John, I'm available. I'm available for weddings and bar mitzvahs and what have...
...artiste," Wayne made The Green Berets, perhaps the only movie yet filmed that should be banned as obscene. People tend to underestimate the influence of a movie like that on the wardheelers and bored millionaires whom Americans elect to send them to wars. Wayne knew nothing about Vietnam, about killing babies and shooting smack and blowing your lieutenant's head off after he told you to take Hill #34. He shot the movie in Georgia, where people think they know about war but it takes 40 of them for a lynching...
...Party, all but moribund since 1970. Preaching that the party must become more progressive to survive, he has crisscrossed the state, drawing crowds of 500 and 600 at rallies that once attracted only 50 or 60. His efforts to court new party members, particularly among the independents who helped elect him, have paid off. G.O.P. membership is up about 1,500 in the first five months of 1979, and party contributions are expected to increase $100,000 over previously projected figures for the year. "Dreyfus has brought in a large number of independents who were dissatisfied with the old tweedledum...
...provided fascinating glimpses of the video-taped examination of Grigorenko (Q. "Why did you [engage in dissident acts] if you thought you might be shot?" A. "What's the sense of living one extra year if you continue in the fraud of not facing things?"). Though A.P.A. President-elect Stone sent his evaluation on to Soviet Psychiatrist Andrei Snezhnevsky, who had encouraged the American tests, the findings are not likely to end Soviet psychiatric abuses. Snezhnevsky dismissed the results as a "misdiagnosis," a consequence of "not knowing all the features of community life in [Grigorenko's] native land...
Many physicians argue that the only way the U.S. is going to bring its medical costs under control is by emphasizing preventive medicine instead of crisis care. They stress exercise, weight control, cutting out drinking and smoking. Says Dr. Hoyt D. Gardner, president-elect of the A.M.A.: "America medically suffers more from affluence?and consequent self-indulgence?than from poverty." But not many doctors are genuinely optimistic that much will be done...