Word: english
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reverse English. G.O.P. Governors proved equally disappointing: though 18 of the 26 were privately for Rockefeller, only Maryland's Spiro T. Agnew, Rhode Island's John Chafee and Oregon's McCall would publicly commit themselves. Romney, whom Rocky had supported before New Hampshire, began to feel that Rockefeller had used him and pointedly refrained from backing the New Yorker. After Rockefeller's announcement last week, Lenore Romney, the Governor's outspoken wife, allowed that the Michigander "would have continued his campaign had he not felt that Mr. Rockefeller was going to be a candidate...
...week's most entertaining special dealt with seemingly the dullest subject for TV: The Strange Case of the English Language, a collaboration by CBS Commentator Harry Reasoner and Writer-Producer Andrew Rooney. Best bit: film clips of well-known speakers in the throes of foot-in-mouth disease...
Kennedy, of course, has several powerful friends at the local level. Nassau County Chairman Jack English sways voters living in a densely-populated Long Island suburb of New York City, and Joseph E. Crangle wields the same kind of power over Erie County (including Buffalo). Although they have not officially supported Kennedy, they do not hide their feelings. A strong county chairman has unmatched influence because he--not a United States Senator or Governor--directly controls the lower-level patronage and favor-dispensation which remain the crux of American politics even when the nation...
...enrolled in summer school. The same is true for two-thirds or more of the total Black population at Shaw. But since you insist on writing your article without precision, clarity, and intensity--as if intensifiers and qualifiers do not exist in the English language--I must respond...
...evening in the student campus inn, a young man from Harvard become so compulsive that he had to declare his supposed omnipotence. Following a heated discussion this young man blurted out: "I know ten times as much English as any Shaw student." Well, as you can see, the trial began and it was not too long after that it ended. The Harvard-Radcliffe-M.I.T. students had packed their bags and were headed for sunnier resorts...