Word: humphreyism
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Sometimes there are unexpected dividends. The Lawrences began exchanging Christmas cards with Duke Ellington (1956) and Egypt's President Nasser (six-time cover subject). Dan Austin, an academic administrator from Plantation, Fla., with almost 400 covers, found that his initial request to Hubert Humphrey (twelve-time cover subject) resulted in a warm, ongoing correspondence. And Kaminsky received a signed cover from William Holden (1956) two months after the actor died. Presumably, it had been cached among Holden's papers, then dutifully dispatched by his executors...
...served in the army after his graduation and later worked for then-presidential candidate Hubert H. Humphrey before the 1968 election. In 1970, he began four terms of service as a state representative from South Boston and Dorchester, moved to the Boston City Council...
...Sigmund Freud (Sir Alec Guinness) pops up from time to time as Benjamin's mystical mentor, constantly reminding him of his breaches in psychiatric practice as well as his own unstable state of mind. Freud's witty, satirical comments do not ring true, though; instead, they remind us of Humphrey Bogart's advice to Woody Allen throughout Play It Again, Sam. Similar takeoffs from other films dot the rest of Lovesick as well, including Moore's sequences of drunkenness that mirror those in Arthur two years...
Eugene McCarthy, 66, former Senator and presidential candidate, on the nascent campaigns of current Democratic White House hopefuls: "John Glenn is running as Eisenhower, Walter Mondale is running as Hubert Humphrey, and Gary Hart is running as John Kennedy...
...Helms, the gas levy was a tax-and-spend heresy. Aided by his North Carolina colleague John East and two obscure Republican freshmen, Donald Nickles of Oklahoma and Gordon Humphrey of New Hampshire, Helms tried to talk the bill to death. The willful clique was able to delay a final roll call until Thursday, two days before Christmas, hoping that by then enough members would have gone home to prevent the Senate from mustering a quorum...