Word: eras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...local Kennedy machinery. Fortunately for Kennedy, there are no pro-Johnson Democrats in the state with that kind of appeal. Frank O'Connor, who lost badly to incumbent Nelson Rockefeller in the 1966 gubernatorial race, is not an exciting man. Averell Harriman, former governor, is of a by-gone era. Joseph Resnick, running as an LBJ-supporter in the statewide primary for United States Senator, has little to recommend him but his heavy campaign spending...
...circumstances of beauty," predicted Borges in his February 28 lecture on the art of translation. When men learn to overcome their reverence for fact, they will see beauty without impingement by biographical-historical "accidents" surrounding it: we will ignore a poet's name, origins, nationality and era...
...righthanders on the staff, led by junior Ray Peters, should be outstanding. Last year Peters had a 9-3 record with a blazing 1.67 ERA. Peters will find strong backing in Bob Lincoln and Bob Dorwart...
...cause. Indeed, the volunteers who swarmed to Eugene McCarthy in New Hampshire were far more deeply involved in the political mainstream than the civil rights marchers, and his youthful workers-some 5,000 strong-won results far more tangible and immediate than their predecessors in the South. In an era when many younger Americans are turning away from involvement in the democratic process, by dropping out either to psychedelia or to the nihilism of the New Left, the cool, crisply executed crusade of Gene McCarthy's "ballot children" provided heartening evidence that the generation gap is bridgeable-politically...
Rebecca West once observed that "the railroad stations are the cathedrals of America." She was referring to the architecture-and romance-of another era, and it seems unlikely that she would accord the same accolade to that waiting room of the mid-20th century, the nervous, noisy jetport. For travelers in a hurry, it is all too often a place for enforced contemplation, while airlines catch up with their weather-beaten schedules. Novelist Hailey gives airports his familiar Hotel treatment, and the result may permanently ground all his readers...