Word: grass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Credo of Ignorance. The voter-initiative movement actually began in 1965, when Novelist Günter Grass traveled around the country drumming up votes for Brandt, who was then opposition leader. This year Grass again took to the roads in a Volkswagen bus, speaking to as many as four or five rallies a day, and often attracting bigger crowds than the party candidates. Brandt also had the notable support of Nobel-prize-winning Novelist Heinrich Böll and Film Stars Curt Jurgens and Romy Schneider, while the Free Democrats were endorsed by Swiss Playwright Rolf Hochhuth and Actor Hardy...
...bold, even reckless generalizer. He has not hesitated to indict an entire political generation. But even he falters at this point. Rather weakly he waves the flag of the new populism-an alliance of "Negroes, women, workers" that will somehow transfer power from the elite to the grass roots. He hopes vaguely that an excess of bloody rationalism will produce a rekindled "need for political humanism...
This Yale team, which has lost only on artificial grass, does prefer natural turf. "Our kids feel more secure on it" the Eli coach said...
...were willing to desert the party at the top of the ticket came home at the lower levels. In general, voters were remarkably kind to incumbents regardless of party. Across the country, fewer than a dozen Congressmen who had made it to the general election were unseated. From the grass roots looking up, the Nixon landslide in most districts was barely perceptible. One explanation may be that the electorate was reaching for stability and the familiar face; a conscientious Congressman makes sure that his features are well known...
...dumpling of a woman with a turned-up nose and a turned-down figure that often resembles a lightly squeezed tube of toothpaste. Gnome is where her heart is, especially when spoofing flowers, inch-worms and swishy ballet masters, or imitating a katydid rubbing its legs (Splendor in the Grass). When four of her dancers somehow managed to portray a cowardly lion encountering an equally cowardly clown in a cage (Circus Scene), it became clear that she is not the only one who wears the pantaloni in her deliciously zany company...