Word: knights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only a flat, last-minute, wildly improbable turndown by the top man could have beaten him, but Richard Nixon was taking nothing for granted last week in his campaign for vice-presidential renomination. Chigger-bitten by Harold Stassen, stung by California Governor Goodwin Knight's bumblebee efforts against him (TIME, Aug. 27), Nixon spread political balm in San Francisco with a soothing hand. Like a busy doctor, he moved from room to room of his Mark Hopkins Hotel suite to talk to delegations-and before long, the traffic was so heavy that the only way the delegates could leave...
...speech. Stassen was one of the seconders. An ex-Democrat from Nebraska, one Terry Carpenter, backed down after nominating a fictitious "symbol of an open convention" named Joe Smith (thereby setting off a spate of "Yes, Virginia, There Is a Joe Smith" editorials in the U.S. press). Governor "Goodie" Knight choked down his gorge and made the California announcement of 70 votes for Nixon. The nomination, like Ike's, was unanimous-and old Frank Nixon took new heart, began gaining strength to the extent that Richard Nixon returned to San Francisco to deliver his acceptance speech...
...Holy Grail-which Sir Lancelot glimpsed for one transcendent instant, which the pure knight, Sir Galahad, and simple Sir Percival sought and found-may now be reposing in the strong room of Lloyd's Bank in Aberystwyth, Wales. It will soon be turned over to a vivacious blonde Englishwoman named Mrs. James Mirylees...
What Women Want. What did his loathsome patients expect of him? Dr. Stein points to the young knight's experiences in "The Wife of Bath's Tale" from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales...
When Chaucer's young knight acts on this conviction and, in effect, gives her freedom to the old hag he has been trapped into marrying, she is promptly transformed into a beautiful and faithful young woman. The analyst, says Dr. Stein, must symbolically grant "sovereignty" to his hag patients by freely accepting "the negative destructive aspect of [his patients'] feminine nature" and casting aside his own "inquisitorial attitude." This, the doctor adds, "is the key to the secret which the analyst must discover if he is to deal successfully with 'loathsome women.' " How well does...