Word: hoffer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commence to feel the faint embarrassment of becoming comfortable with Richard Nixon?" asked Columnist Murray Kempton. San Francisco Folk Philosopher Eric Hoffer, who says that he was totally against Nixon before November, now recants. "The man is a total surprise," says Hoffer. "It's wonderful that a man who is so denigrated turns out to be so good. I glory in it." Few other observers share Hoffer's extravagant enthusiasm, but TIME correspondents around the country find that many others who voted for Hubert Humphrey also find merit-if only grudgingly-in the Republican President...
...center. But in the permissive society, where almost anything goes, eccentricity no longer stands out against any dominant "center." Since eccentricity is also relative to its place and time, rapid change now often turns it into conventional behavior. Only a few years ago, Longshoreman-Philosopher Eric Hoffer seemed eccentric indeed; now the young scorn him as an Establishmentarian. Conceivably, some current student radicals may go the same way-as some black leaders already have. In short, real eccentricity is probably harder to achieve than ever...
...original drama starring Paul Scofield, and shows headlined by Brigitte Bardot and Elvis Presley. CBS promises a study of the Galapagos Islands narrated by Britain's Prince Philip, a Royal Shakespeare Company production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and another colloquy with Waterfront Philosopher Eric Hoffer. ABC will screen about 45 hours of the sum mer Olympics from Mexico, as well as a Truman Capote report on capital punishment and two more Capote teleplays. In news, CBS and NBC will pioneer prime-time shows with a magazine format. CBS's 60 Minutes, to be seen...
...left, the Village Voice's Jack Newfield, a noisy supporter of Kennedy, used the occasion to berate all the people who do not share his apocalyptic, sock-it-to-'em view of politics. Newfield felt "rage," he said, "at men like Archbishop Cooke and Eric Hoffer, who say America should feel no national guilt, because the assassin was a Jordanian nationalist...
Eventually, Hoffer will try his hand at such timely subjects as the coming elections. His political convictions, though, are no secret. "I want to help get Johnson elected," he says. "I have known Johnsons all my life. The greatness of the country is that it can produce so many. If he fails, I fail. If he succeeds, I succeed...