Word: goldenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mandate to Begin. The President spoke for 35 minutes, reading alternately from his text and from the Speech View prompters fastened to the podium at eye level. He urged Americans to "rededicate ourselves to keeping burning the golden torch of promise which John Kennedy set aflame." He reiterated the Democratic themes of "peace, prosperity and preparedness," promised "compassion and love to the old, the sick and the hungry," asked for "a mandate to begin" the march toward "the Great Society." He struck at Barry Goldwater by declaring that the coming campaign would be a contest "between those who welcome...
...J.F.K. Drinking Glass," a tumbler adorned with a sky-blue caricature of the late President, J.F.K. chocolate-filled gold coins (10?), and a posthumous J.F.K. prayer ("Special Delivery from Heaven," $2.95 gift-boxed). Other big-selling souvenirs include martini shakers cunningly shaped like bedpans, rubber and nylon "Golden Goddess Shrunken Heads," and a coffee-table plaque that reads: GOD BLESS THIS LOUSY APARTMENT. Vacationers stand in line for rococo delicacies ranging from frankfurters stewed in champagne (it says) to chocolate-covered frozen bananas...
...Golden Rule. In political speeches, Goldwater generally forgoes organ-tone wind-ups appealing to Providence. But he almost always stresses the religious underpinnings of his political philosophy. Said he in his San Francisco acceptance speech: "Those who seek to take your liberty, those who elevate the state and downgrade the citizen, must see ultimately a world in which earthly power can be substituted for Divine Will. And this nation was founded upon the acceptance of God as the author of freedom...
...golden age of bridges is now. Never before in the history of the world has man had such a wealth of means in money, materials and technology to fulfill his inborn desire to get to the other side. By using strong new steels and ingeniously strengthened concrete, he has made it possible to move himself and his goods over barriers his forebears thought uncrossable...
After King's College, Cambridge (Uncle Alan was Dean), the other golden lads and lasses fell in love, married, got jobs. Not Rupert. Dawdling on at Grantchester, a sleepy village near Cambridge ("Yet stands the church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea?"), he floundered through one infatuation after another. But with the only girl who really wanted a serious relationship, Rupert backed and filled, made himself sick and finally fled to the South Seas. He admitted, says Hassall, that "he was, most regrettably, a Victorian at heart." At 27, only a few months...