Word: goldwaterism
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Aldous Huxley died Friday in California. Senator Goldwater flew on to Washington after attending the funeral of his mother-in-law in Indiana.
"The editor of a Midwest newspaper asked me a question the other day," wrote Columinst Max 'When Lerner in the York Post. " 'When Kennedy ran in 1960,' he said, 'everyone was discussing Kennedy as a Catholic: there was a big to-do about it. Why doesn...
"I happen to believe that it isn't healthy," he wrote, "either for the country or the Jews, to stay away from the subject of Goldwater's Jewishness. To be sure, he is only a half-Jew by heredity and a converted Jew-an Episcopalian-by his practicing...
"Why then the almost complete silence, except in the biographical studies? I think it is because despite the long history of religious toleration and enlightenment, or perhaps exactly because of that history, Americans are embarrassed at talking about Jewishness. You can speak of a man in public life as a...
"There is no reason why we should not talk of this. One of the things I like about America is the crazy contradictoriness of American life. It is sheer delight for me to think of all those superpatriots in Texas and California, who would find Senator Javits anathema-andnot only...