Word: interestedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The doves received the loudest ovations for their statements. But the pro-Administration forces, dominated by Southerners who were determined to prevent a repudiation of Johnson's policies though not particularly interested in how the plank might damage Humphrey, received the most votes. When Albert read the final tally, it...
Rocking-Chair Candidate. McCarthy's supporters charged that the whole convention was being set up with Humphrey's needs in mind. But in reality it was Lyndon Johnson who was in control, and he did not seem overly interested in rigging the convention for his Vice President. Each...
Fund Raiser. At his farewell press conference, Kirk insisted that he was "not interested in what anyone thinks about my victory or defeat, but only in the welfare of this university." Indeed, the rancor generated by last spring's student rebellion and some 800 arrests has tended to obscure...
A decade ago, TV Producer-Perform er David Susskind was generating some bright cultural rays with quality net work dramas and a provocative new talk show, Open End. At the same time, California Industrialist Norton W. Simon, president of Hunt Foods & In dustries', was making commercial his tory by...
Enervated Limbo. Armah's anonymous antihero, referred to as "the man," works in a dim, suffocating traffic-control center, where he tracks the erratic routing of decrepit trains he never sees. The scene suits his mental state, for he lives in the cheerless, enervated limbo of post-revolution letdown...