Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...longtime administrative assistant, is the candidate's closest adviser, although to outsiders he seems mainly busied with holding ths Senator's coat and seeing that he gets from one meeting to another. Curtis Gans, 30, a former United Press International reporter, is the chief tactician at the grass-roots level and the most important of the Mc-Carthyites in Wisconsin today. Seymour Hersh, 30, still another former newsman (he covered the Pentagon for the Associated Press), is press secretary, speechwriter-and an unexcelled master of profanity. A score of others do everything from dispersing funds to researching issues...
...back from India and soon entered McCarthy's campaign. Said Dan Dodd, 23, a tall, tweedy Oregonian who dropped out of Union Theological Seminary to join Gene: "I was thinking of turning in my draft card, but then the campaign began. We're not going to build grass-roots politics in time to end the war by November, but if we can end the present President's career, maybe we can do it by then...
...members' lounge, Brown complained to Tories and Laborites alike: "I'm never consulted about anything." Then he gathered about 50 Labor M.P.s in the Commons' tearoom. "I'm one of you now," he said. "We are going to plunge this party back to the grass roots and see a reflowering of our party...
...there is music here, and beauty in the striving: "A blade of grass can be the world ...that the world is nothing without it." And Widerberg shows us the truth in his most masterful technical strokes. With his camera lens wide open, the depth of field is reduced, and all we can see is the blade of grass--Elvira's hair, and, in the end, the gray barrel of the pistol. The background--the rest of the world--is blurred: "When you look at the blade of grass, you can see it and nothing else. The rest of the world...
...story gives Widerberg a chance to play games in the trees and the grass and the flowers. At times he is successful. The mock gunfight between Sparre and his friend on a huge old tree is a beautiful tableau. When Elvira and Sparre walk up a road, the scene has the haunting quality of a Munch painting. But these two scenes are the only truly fine outdoor sequences that are properly exposed. In the rest, the greens are mercilessly washed out in white light; exposures are nearly always one to two stops...