Word: joy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...questing restlessness, an unwonted sense of contentment shows through these days. He talks about 1968 as being his last opportunity, but he is a fatalist, and his long-range future does not preoccupy him. Amidst all the talk of the new politics, the politics of reality, the politics of joy, Kennedy seems glad to be in combat again, waging the politics of restoration...
Pablum & Tranquilizers. Bobby rapidly developed his own style, blending hard proposals, double-edged wit and a tough platform manner. The Johnson dropout deprived him of his prime target, but Hubert Humphrey soon provided another. Kennedy seized on H.H.H.'s "politics of joy" slogan to offer his own contrast: "If you want to be filled with Pablum and tranquilizers," he said in Detroit's John F. Kennedy Square last week, "then you should vote for some other candidate." Again: "Let's not have tired answers. If you see a small black child starving to death in the Mississippi Delta...
...Angeles a little early, he gave his talk immediately and was on his way out when most of his listeners were coming in. Humphrey is the old-school orator: expansive, ringing, grand and open in gesticulation. It is ironic that Kennedy, despite his scorn for Humphrey's "politics of joy," frequently generates a carnival atmosphere that approaches frenzy...
...City, Humphrey and Kennedy paid courtesy calls on the United Auto Workers' convention on successive days. Humphrey talked in folksy terms about his own political status and the Viet Nam negotiations. Kennedy demanded a foreign policy of "no more Viet Nams," jabbed at Humphrey's "politics of joy" slogan by saying that, considering poverty and other problems, the U.S. "is not a joyous and happy country." Humphrey seemed to get a slightly warmer reception than Kennedy, but the U.A.W. is officially remaining neutral. At week's end in Omaha, Humphrey and Kennedy again shared an audience-Democratic...
...common with the other two is the message in the following lines: "Everybody's building ships and boat; some are building monuments; some are jotting down notes. Everybody's in despair. Every girl and boy. But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here, everybody's going to jump for joy." People are despairing because what they're doing--building monuments or jotting down notes to songs like Dylan--is as useless as Dylan said it was in Visions of Johanna...