Word: hooverism
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...double-breasted, eggshell blue, worsted herringbone suit; the candy-striped, English-cuffed, high-necked Herbert Hoover shirt; the custom-made blue suede monk strap loafers. It is hard for Journalist Tom Wolfe, 50, (The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby; The Right Stuff) to keep his identity under his hat, especially when it is a hand-blocked and brushed blue felt bowler like the one he is sporting in front of the studiously garish former Huntington Hartford Gallery of Modern Art on Manhattan's Columbus Circle. The Wolfe in chic clothing, having savaged much of the modern art world...
...problem would never have come up, of course, if Jimmy Carter had not sold the Sequoia in one of his paroxysms of anti-imperial budget cutting. Carter got only $286,000 for the old yacht that had served American Presidents since Hoover, but it was the symbolism of the thing that mattered. Carter took the oath of office in a $175 business suit and spurned a limousine in order to lead his Inaugural parade up Pennsylvania Avenue on foot. He went for an image of blameless frugality, a presidency in a cardigan sweater: no pomp, just folks. He even brought...
Last week the directors of other libraries from Hoover to Johnson came to admire the new architecture, landscaping, electronic retrieval devices and pictorial displays. Cabinet members from Ford's Administration assembled for reminiscences, and friends joined to lend their good wishes...
...killing George McGovern. Lee Harvey Oswald apparently shot at General Edwin Walker, a right-wing fanatic, before killing President Kennedy. Giuseppe Zangara, who took aim at President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 (accidentally killing the mayor of Chicago), said that he would just as soon have killed Herbert Hoover...
...mask, a pun). Slips of the tongue, therefore, are like slips on banana peels; we crave their occurrence if only to break the monotonies. The monotonies run to substance. When that announcer introduced Hoobert Heever, he may also have been saying that the nation had had enough of Herbert Hoover...