Word: garners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other hand, Writer William Buckley argues in a column to be published this week: "The ideological coloration of one's running mate isn't a part of one's 'philosophy.' It is a matter of adaptation to political reality. Roosevelt had his Garner; Adlai Stevenson his Jim Crow running mate, John Sparkman; John Kennedy his Lyndon Johnson-it is a tradition as old as Jackson and Calhoun." The Buckley line was echoed by other sophisticated political augurs. It did not take into account, however, the fact that Reagan, unlike the other candidates mentioned, had spectacularly...
...Nancy H. Garner...
Young personally urged other liberal candidates to stay out of the Florida race and give Carter a chance to win in a head-on contest with the old segregationist. He stumped the state and helped garner 70% of the black vote for Carter-enough to give him his victory margin over Wallace. By then, Jimmy Carter had convinced Young that he could go all the way. Though Carter has not taken all the stock liberal positions. Young feels that blacks are instinctively sympathetic to him. "Jimmy doesn't need that much advice about black issues," says Young. "His childhood...
Somehow what's wrong with Harvard's graduate education is conveyed in the bodiless atmosphere of the Widener stacks, Garner suggested. "The thing you're here for is largely the library. The big privilege is to have a book shelf on your stall. You commune more with books than with people. Garner, who is a native of Oklahoma and speaks with the slightest trace of a southern accent, laughed. "But at least I got to see the spring through my Widener window, even if I wasn't a part of it," he said...
...been aided by Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor, and Ross Terrill, associate professor of Government, in his efforts to gain access to the stacks, he has spent his time there doing research for his future novel about the experience of Japanese-Americans during World War II. Unlike Garner, what bothers Asakawa about Widener is not the atmosphere but the price paid by a visiting scholar to rent a stall. "There were good books on what happened during General MacArthur's administration in Japan, but it cost me about $165 for three months, so I xeroxed a lot of things...