Word: favor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus, City-wide issues are often shunted in favor of questions concerning a neighborhood, or even just a block. Councillors fight to get a sidewalk repaired, a traffic light installed, or a playground cleaned in their strongholds...
...propagandist playwrights of the 1930's have, both politically and artistically, plummeted out of popular favor. Their folksy brand of unflinching radicalism--often Marxism--makes sense neither to the new leftist nor the new liberal. And the grim seriousness with which they tackled boring problems like poverty and bigotry seems incomprehensible to an age of absurdists--whose drama generally preys on problems once or twice-removed from the realm of the reparable...
...championing of free enterprise, National Review gets precious few ads. The captains of industry that it celebrates are reluctant to return the favor, largely because the magazine does not reach enough readers to suit them; profits take precedence over ideology. Besides, Buckley is not a totally reliable supporter. In one breathtaking column for the Review, he managed to equate Henry Ford's divorce with the suicides of Publisher Philip Graham and Stephen Ward, Christine Keeler's keeper. All were men, wrote Buckley "wanting in the stuff of spiritual survival." Ford yanked its advertising. BOAC, on the other hand...
...thereby alienating Brother-in-Law Bozell, who publishes the conservative Catholic magazine Triumph. Believing in the innocence of Edgar Smith, a convicted rapist now in the death house in Trenton, Buckley has done his level best to win him a retrial. In recent columns, he has come out in favor of L.BJ.'s rent-supplement program, compulsory arbitration of major labor disputes, and "massive" aid to the ghettos-scarcely traditional conservative causes...
Columbia University students have voted overwhelmingly in favor of open recruiting by any government or private organizations...