Word: lanier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...distinct from an anti-McGovern vote-it reflects not so much conservative ideology as an "I'm all right, Jack" attitude among the many voters whose tunes have improved during the exuberant upturn of the past year. "The farmer is going to vote Nixon." declares William L. Lanier, who raises soybeans and tobacco in Georgia. "For the first time in years, the farmer is making profit." Indeed, the Administration in the past year has lifted from subsidies by $1 billion, to $4 billion, helping increase fam income by 15%. Alex Harkness, a construction worker in Knoxville, Tenn., says complacently...
...Wallace delegates were bug-eyed. There on the podium at the convention was a certified member of Gay Liberation nonchalantly addressing the party while a small claque cheered him on. "Goddam," said Jess Lanier, mayor of Bessemer, Ala., though the gay plank did not pass. "Goddam. If that's what they're going to talk about, we're never going to get this party together again. They haven't got a dog's chance of electing a President on this platform. Damn, do they need Wallace...
Juicy Imagery. Not that such provocative liturgies are new at St. Clement's. Once a poorly attended High Church bastion, it took on new life in the 1960s under a priest named Sidney Lanier, who suggested turning it into an actors' church and using the sanctuary for weekday performances of the off-Broadway American Place Theater. The American Place troupe now has new quarters, but Monick, Lanier's successor, has continued St. Clement's involvement with the theater. In a 1969 experiment, Monick and Playwright Tom LaBar prepared an environmental Eucharist, a daylong service in which...
...speed and range-"more than enough to pick off an interception and go all the way." Taylor is no behemoth, but he hits like one. "He's a real sticker," says one scout, "with a nose for the ball. I'd compare him with Wil lie Lanier," star of the Kansas City Chiefs. Mark Arneson, Arizona, 6 ft. 2 in., 210 Ibs., is described by one pro talent watcher as "super quick, aggressive and a leader...
...ready to say where it will all end. In a recent game against the Mets in San Francisco, the Giants' weak-hitting shortstop Hal Lanier poled a towering drive over the left centerfield wall that traveled at least 430 ft. It was Lanier's second homer in three years...