Word: goldenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Golden Age of subversion" is over, says Editor William F. Buckley Jr., and he almost seems to regret it. Gone are traitors of the magnitude of Alger Hiss, witnesses of the eloquence of Whittaker Chambers. Still, today's radical resurgence, thinks Buckley, has created a swarm of lesser subversives who bear close watching. To keep an eye on them, he has started a four-page newsletter, Combat, to be published twice a month...
Combat is staffed by noted anti-subversives left over from the Golden Age. Its editor is Theodore Lit, who used to work with the late Fulton Lewis Jr. and was senior editor of the Conservative Book Club. Research is handled by Ruth Matthews, widow of J. B. Matthews, the ex-fellow traveler who kept the House Un-American Activities Committee liberally supplied with names. Chief consultant is Eugene Lyons, a recently retired Reader's Digest senior editor who has written extensively on the Communist menace...
...about to destroy Southern California for its sinfulness. Driven by this conviction, nearly 600 members of half a dozen pentecostal churches in the Golden State are pulling up stakes and getting out before the holocaust...
...being it celebrates. Both communicate a lusty enthusiasm. The fresh Air ("Welcome, sulfur dioxide, Hello, carbon monoxide"), the moving Frank Mills ("I love him, but it embarrasses me to walk down the street with him"), and the optimistic greeting to the age of Aquarius ("No more falsehoods or derisions, golden living dreams of visions") are engaging enough to draw listeners of any age to the junior side of the generation...
...selection one of his key services. He, his record librarian, or a panel of 24 proteges at his stations around the country audition virtually every new U.S. release. Then, by weekly phone call, he discusses with each station what new "hit-bounds" to add to the repertory and what "golden oldies" to revive...