Word: humphreyism
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...nonetheless been remarkable. The son of an Atlanta shoe wholesaler, he was a star basketball player in high school and later studied at the University of North Carolina and Harvard Law School ('67). He wrote speeches on domestic affairs for Lyndon Johnson, then became an adviser to Hubert Humphrey during the 1968 presidential race. At that time he believed in the Great Society approach to social problems: spend more money on them...
...paramount mostly for the choreographer. It is his source, his dream, his love. For the audience it often makes very little difference what a dance is about; in fact, some of the most famous and successful dances in the world have been on trivial and inconsequential subjects. --Doris Humphrey...
...movements, he is already supported by a 50-year-old tradition in modern dance. In fact, dance is now thought to be going through a classical period, in which certain "phrases," such as the contraction and release of Martha Graham or the fall to the floor of Doris Humphrey, have become rigidified, and used over and over again with little variation...
...month-old report of the subcommittee on African affairs of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee helps provide much-needed answers to these complex problems. The subcommittee, chaired by Sen.Dick Clark (D-Iowa) and staffed by the late Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn.) and Sen. James Pearson (R-Kans.), spent more than a year researching the topic. The subcommittee interviewed representatives of corporations and banks operating in South Africa as well as members of anti-apartheid groups. It investigated corporate labor and management policies in South Africa and analyzed the ways in which U.S. banks affect the finances of the Vorster...
...headlines. But behind those prices can be multimillion-dollar battles between commercial and political rivals that escape public notoriety. And in this case there are. The very bitterness of the sugar-pricing controversy can be seen in one of the last official acts by the late Senator Hubert Humphrey, who in a statement accused the Carter Administration of "bungling and ineptitude" and acting "contrary to the expressed intent of Congress" in its sugar policies...