Word: hugheses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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It was something over a year ago when I first heard The Voice. I went down to Greenwich Village to hear Langston Hughes' musical panorama Jerico-Jim Crow, performed in a building that does double duty as a church and a synagogue.
The local critics were not deaf at last week's Boston opening, either. Elinor Hughes (Herald) found the number "just great." Kevin Kelly (Globe) cited Price's "vivid performance" and said he "sings with enough power and feeling to bring the roof down, and he does." Alta Maloney (Traveler) called...
Only two Governors--Reynolds of Wisconsin and Rossellini of Washington, both involved in 1962-style battles with their legislatures--were defeated. Democratic Governors Hughes of Iowa (with 69% of the vote), Morrison of Nebraska (60%), and King of New Hampshire (67%) were re-elected with pluralities astonishing for Democrats in...
If the 1964 mood is still lingering, Hughes will probably win in a landslide, with something like 60% of the vote. If Hughes wins by a relatively small margin (as he did in 1961), then we may assume that the feelings engendered by President Kennedy's death have largely faded...
The first real test of voters' attitudes will come in the gubernatorial election this fall in New Jersey. Governor Richard J. Hughes, a Democrat, in many ways resembles Governor Kerner. Hughes has an unremarkable personality, is a good family man, and has done a satisfactory but not sparkling job as...