Word: huckstered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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RICHARD GOODWIN has the first qualification of a reformer--he's an optimist. Not a Pangloss, huckster, or sentimentalist. But "in politics," he says, "the idea that problems can be solved is a professional assumption...
...generals. The latest attack came last week from Robert G. Sherrill, who is publishing an acerbic book on Humphrey to follow his acerbic book on Johnson. In a foretaste published in the Nation, Sherrill implies that Humphrey unconsciously doubts his own masculinity, calls him a "weeping hawk,"* a "pudgy huckster," and impugns his commitment to any abiding convictions...
Egostatism. There never has been any doubt that Kirk is among the quick. But is he for real? Says a former business associate: "He is a complete political huckster, a phony and a very dangerous man." To Bill Baggs, editor of the Miami News, "Kirk appears to be the only man in Western civilization who has more answers than there are questions." The Miami Herald refers to him as "Claudius Maximus...
...show was well salted with hilarious vignettes of the beauty world. A beauty-counter huckster romanced his customers ("You would be the perfect type for Ultima"), a mincing makeup man proclaimed, "You now look as if you worshiped at the shrine of Aphrodite." One cosmetics-department manager confided: "If a product sold for 15?-a face cream-we could not give it away, we couldn't sell it for 15?. At $1, there'd be a certain group of customers; at $3, an even wider number of customers-certainly more than at 15?." Why? Summed up a psychoanalyst...
...sensitive, cigarette huckster son of a despotic Greek rug dealer find happiness with the sleep-around daughter of a small-town Dixie bigot? Well, sort of. If you give him 444 pages to work...