Word: labelers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...completely black pictures and completely white ones. Once he tried making pictures out of dirt packed in boxes; when grass sprang up, he was delighted. Wheedling a drawing out of Willem de Kooning, the dean of abstract expressionists, he laboriously erased it, and then boldly displayed it under the label Erased De Kooning Drawing, Robert Rauschenberg...
...also a political error? Barry Goldwater thought so, and immediately hurled the word "isolationist" at Johnson-giving back the label with which Democrats had bedeviled Republicans for two decades. "The eyes and ears of the entire world were turned to that speech," said Barry, "looking and listening for the vision and strength that would once again put America on the high road of world leadership. Instead, the world witnessed a vision turned inward, isolated and sighted only toward domestic political advantage...
...tastes run to Scotch and soda and Mozart, but his talent clearly is selling beer. "All beers taste pretty much alike in the U.S.," says Dowie, "so it boils down to who does the best promotion." He credits Carling's 15-year-old slogan, "Mabel! Black Label" for its surge in the U.S. market. Like many other brewers, he also bets heavily on sports sponsorships, last week laid out $450,000 for the Carling World Golf Championship tournament in Detroit...
...party was founded in 1856." But confronted with the Republican Party's 1964 presidential choice, the Sun-Bulletin ran out of enthusiasm altogether: "We cannot accept the ideas, the philosophy or the purposes of Senator Barry M. Goldwater." The Sun-Bulletin's editorial went on to label Goldwater "a reckless and irresponsible man temperamentally unfitted for the presidency." With that, the paper broke its 108-year record of party loyalty by lining up behind the candidacy of Lyndon Johnson...
...would say it is the totally wrong view our opponents will try to din into the minds of every American voter-namely, that the election of a Republican President in November will somehow lead to war. This is the supreme political lie, and we've got to label it for what it is. Let me assure you here and now that a Goldwater-Miller Administration will mean an immediate return to the proven policy of peace through strength, which was the hallmark of the Eisenhower years. The Eisenhower-Dulles approach to foreign affairs is our approach...