Word: lindsays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...does not accuse the mayor of being too friendly with blacks; he blames Lindsay's policies for causing "an upsurge of anti-Semitism." He decries the nightstick approach to crime, but he wants teen-agers accused of violent crimes to be treated like adult offenders, and he wants narcotics addicts swept, from the streets and held without bail when possible. He is skeptical about school decentralization. When accused of racism, he explodes: "That's the dirtiest thing I've seen done in a long time." When he uses the term "law and order," he insists, "The words are not shorthand...
...board with this bit of alliterative class propaganda: "City College is what New York is all about. It has always had more heart than Harvard. It has always been more real than Yale. It has always had more purpose than Princeton. That school is the soul of our city." Lindsay, of course, is a Yale man, and he probably has the Ivy League vote anyway...
Procaccino never tires of life-style comparisons. "Mr. Marchi," he says, "does not fit into this category of people that have to work with their hands, with the sweat of their brows and so forth." He tries to portray Lindsay as an effete jet-setter: "A clean neighborhood is more important to people than poetry reading." That, presumably, was a crack at Lindsay's narration of the text accompanying a performance of Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait. "I am not one of the select few," Procaccino insists. "I am not one of the Beautiful People...
Because many beautiful?and rich ?people are for Lindsay, he will be able to outspend both of his rivals. That is one reason why the mayor may well win re-election after all. Much of the money is expected to go into a TV blitz in the campaign's last...
...station wagon step Procaccino and his two running mates. The crowd is friendly, the candidates cheerful, the encounter an instant success. A woman approaches, gray, wrinkled, ancient. "I voted for him," she says of John Lindsay. "But I hate him. I hate him! You got to get him out of there." Procaccino replies with his customary vehemence: "I got news for you. We are going to get him out. But I want to remind you of why you voted for him. Because he's pretty, that's why. Now I'm not pretty...