Word: humphreyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM is Woody Allen's comedy, in which he stars as a woefully unconfident young man coached in the art of winning women by his fantasy hero, Humphrey Bogart. Though the play sometimes resembles an extended nightclub routine, it proves an amusing evening...
Bradley is a registered Democrat, like Yorty, but he has managed to pull together a broad coalition of backers that covers the political spectrum. Endorsements have come from Democrats Ted Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey, Republicans Charles Percy and Jacob Javits, and several top aides of California Governor Ronald Reagan. To win, Bradley knows that he must get a slice of Los Angeles' large conservative vote, an area that has been Yorty's exclusive bailiwick...
...rare George Lewis concert, and said, "I can't be satisfied with listening to records. I must learn to make music like that myself. Some day I will go to New Orleans with my horn, and I will play with George Lewis, and Kid Thomas, and Percy Humphrey." Young foreigners flocked to this Mecca all through the sixties. Some gave up their careers, or postponed them, to spend years at a time soaking up the music and the culture which created it. I had a great advantage in living there. But in the whole city, I was the only young...
...chose Howard Nathaniel Lee, 34, a Negro, to be its next mayor-by 2,567 votes out of a record 4,734 cast. Lee is the eleventh black mayor in the South, but the first to be elected in a predominantly white Southern community. Said former Vice President Hubert Humphrey in a congratulatory telegram: "This is a new breakthrough in Southern politics...
...obvious difference in geographical proximity. The young (under 35) tend to oppose use of nuclear weapons in the context of a Soviet-supported Cuban threat to Mexico by 43% to 40%, while their elders generally favor it by slightly more than the same margin. Those who voted for Humphrey in 1968 are against using nuclear weapons (44% to 42%). Nixon voters tend to favor them (46% to 41%) as a last resort, while Wallace backers are heavily pro-bomb (50% to 34%). Veterans in general are less reluctant than the public as a whole to risk a nuclear showdown...