Word: lightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There has emerged one bright light in a dark political year: the rare and inspiring excellence of Edmund S. Muskie...
...York, with a population 50 times that of Nevada, has only 14 times as many electoral votes. Laws in each state award all its electoral votes to the statewide winner, no matter how large or small his plurality. The winner-take-all device applies whether the popular vote is light or heavy, and in the "one-party states" it often discourages dissidents from voting...
Nearly a century ago, Sam Tilden made light of his electoral loss by saying: "I shall receive from posterity the credit of having been elected to the highest position in the gift of the people, without any of the cares and responsibilities of the office." It is doubtful if a loser in one of today's superheated campaigns would be so graceful-or indeed whether a minority President like Adams or Hayes could deal with Congress or the world on so minuscule a mandate. Both Harry Truman in 1948 (with 49.6% of the popular vote) and John Kennedy...
...flickering light of hundreds of torches held aloft at East Berlin's Socialist Memorial, some 2,000 young East Germans chanted the oath in unison...
...wild and swinging-folk rock, just plain folk, acid rock, cool jazz, blues, country and Western. There were tents pitched in Betty's muddy meadow, but nobody did much sleeping. The first night, everybody stayed up listening to the music until 2:30 a.m., then watched a psychedelic light show and underground movies. The next night, they never went to bed at all. With the morning came a "Sun Dance." The musicians played drums, chimes, tom-toms, anything at all, while the audience hopped around in the mire chanting, "Sun! Sun! Sun! Sun!" When the sun obliged, a balloonist...