Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that as a boy in Baltimore, he used to help his Greek-born father prepare talks before local groups. "While the Governor's best subject was English," writes Author Ann Pinchot. "this is how he learned to perfect and polish the eloquence and clarity for which he is now known." Alas, it is precisely his prose style that frightens off so many, including some who are sympathetic to his basic message. Columnist William F. Buckley Jr., while concurring in Agnew's description of an "effete corps of impudent snobs," felt impelled to deliver an explication de texte: "The rhetorical arrangement...
...every Vice President since John Adams has known, the nation's second highest office is a dispiriting post only slightly preferable to a rural postmastership (see box preceding page). "The Vice President of the United States," said Thomas R. Marshall, Vice President under Woodrow Wilson, "is like a man in a cataleptic state: he cannot speak; he cannot move; he suffers no pain; and yet he is perfectly conscious of everything that is going on about him." Agnew on the subject: "It's a sort of ancillary job where you're not in the mainstream of anything. The job itself...
...been a success. "The Nameless is full every night, and sometimes we even have to turn, people away," he said. "Two and a half years ago we started out with some pretty raunchy talent," he admitted. But now, he says, the Nameless has succeeded in attracting many well-known singers, including some professionals...
Many factors influence Boston doctors in making the decision to accept or refuse an abortion case. Department heads fear that if they allow too many abortions, their hospital will become known as an abortion clinic. So if they accept an unusually large number of cases one month, they are likely to cut the number drastically in the next, even though the cases are similar. Some hospitals have considered setting up a quota, so abortions would be done on a first-come, first-served basis...
Prisons, torture, suppression of free speech and press are unhappily not unknown in non-communist countries either, and some thinking people still contend that Stalin was better than Hitler, though as more becomes known about Stalin the difference seems to become less and less clear. It may be hoped, however, that Bowles and MacEwan will themselves supply the "thorough elaboration" of their views that they allude to at the close of their letter, and in doing so will explain just how they have arrived at their own presumably unbiased view of communist revolution. Particularly, what weight do they give...