Word: johnsonism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FRONT PAGE. Robert Ryan plays Walter Burns, the tough managing editor of the Chicago Examiner, and Bert Convy plays Hildy Johnson, his top reporter, in this revival of the Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur saga of newspapering in the 1920s. The play has a cornball period flavor that adds to the enjoyment...
...M.I.T. the issue was the November Action Coalition's demand that military research be canceled at two off-campus laboratories and the Center for International Studies (TIME, Nov. 7). Relying on law rather than force, M.I.T. President Howard W. Johnson got a court order barring demonstrators from disrupting school activities. The tactic was partly successful. About 1,000 protesters milled outside while others marched through the first floor of the administration building, made speeches, voted not to seize the president's office, and left peacefully after several hours. The next day, about 350 protesters picketed the Instrumentation Laboratory...
...finally were picked up by a truck driver who had just delivered 35 gallons of onion soup from New York City to Boston. He let off Adam in Worcester and took me as far as a Howard Johnson's somewhere in western Massachusetts...
None of the forgotten Americans at Howard Johnson's would adopt me-not even the one at whom I flashed my Harvard I.D. Everybody's car was "too crowded." Eventually I won the trust of four cheerleaders, in bright blue uniforms, from the University of Buffalo. They had cheered their boys to victory over B.C. that very afternoon...
President Prexy sounds just like Pusey and Kirk and Johnson. The newspaper editor talks just like the established liberal newspapers we're all getting sick of reading. And the cops and the courts are the same cops and courts who are producing the circuses in Chicago and Cambridge...