Word: gorillas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...considered dropping out of the race against Daley. Said the Republican: "If I can't be elected alderman of the 47th Ward, it's impossible for me to be elected mayor." He called Daley's victory "the ultimate in precinct power. They could have elected a gorilla." Don Rose, a leader of the antimachine Democrats and former publisher of a community newspaper, added more fairly: "The man is an institution. He has a unique and special relationship with the city that borders on the religious...
...party that invented the Vietnam War, with the last word on that kind of analysis. "'You have scarce the soul of a louse,' he said, 'but the roots of sin are there.'" Robert S. Strauss, the Democrats' party chairman, compared the party not to a louse but to a gorilla, but he evidently had only the mildest, friendliest, least threatening kind of gorilla in mind--after all, the party did not want to frighten any potential voters away...
...aren't pushing them now, and the people who run the party--Strauss and the candidates--would no doubt prefer to leave things the way they are. But they may not be able to. Especially if there's a minor leftist upsurge like that of the '30s, the Democratic gorilla may find itself advocating a new New Deal...
...Being chairman of the Democratic Party is a little like making love to a gorilla," says Robert S. Strauss. "You don't quit when you're tired, you quit when the gorilla's tired." But judging from the mini-convention held in Kansas City last weekend, the party is more like a wolf in sheep's clothing then a gorilla, and Strauss most definitely is doing a fair job as shepherd...
...first, often hilarious section, they are cast as voyeurs, peering coolly into cages, stop watches and check lists at the ready, to study the sexual behavior of their victims. "Did you record that interaction?" one of them inquires in the ineffable jargon of his craft, as male gorilla approaches female. The analogy between ape and human behavior in this realm is dubious at best, the more so when the subjects are "interacting" not in their natural state but in prison. This portion of Primate makes the Yerkes crowd look like fugitives from a Woody Allen movie...