Word: hokum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What psychological sense the film retains from the Theodore White novel of the same name is waterlogged, if not drowned, by too much hokum and handwringing. The best moments are those in which the enlisted men, having no heroics to perform, slouch about coated with dust and disgust...
...listeners that he, too, had been a poor boy. "American politics are far too important to belong to the moneyman." he said on Milton's Main Street. "I want to bring back politics to the people, to Main Street." In Hamlin he rose to a high for hokum: "They say, 'Don't cut foreign aid to Formosa, but don't give one dime to West Virginia.' This is a one-eyed Government: one eye looking overseas and the other eye closed...
Sunny & Secure. Though the story of Hubert Humphrey, the poor boy, has had currency for years, and it is certainly true that he has known the bony pluck of poverty in his time, a lot of the story is pure hokum. Today the Senator has an income of some $30,000 a year, two homes, two automobiles, and Italian-style cuffs on the sleeves of his stylish suits. Nor was he born poor: his boyhood in Doland, S.Dak. (pop. 550) was as sunny and secure as any American boy could ask for. With his older brother Ralph and two younger...