Word: greeley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even with an extended campaign, the best man is not always selected (Clay, Webster and Greeley were all defeated by lesser statesmen). Nor is a razzle-dazzle road show a prerequisite to victory on Election Day: William McKinley, in 1896, and Warren G. Harding, in 1920, won easily with "front-porch" campaigns, letting the groups of voters and the politicians come to them. And Franklin Roosevelt used the pressures of wartime as a reason for limiting his campaign appearances outside Washington to a bare minimum...
Express the Uplift. Rudolph last year completed his second major building, Yale's Greeley Forestry Laboratory. To dramatize the strength of precast concrete, Rudolph opened up the capitals until they became widespread Ys. He winced when his building was promptly dubbed the "concrete orchard," but insisted stubbornly: "A column is really holding something up. It should express this uplift...