Word: lindsays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Farber, a radio talk-show host with a Carolina drawl and a neat knack for hyperbole, has been busily stumping the ethnic street corners, tarring his Republican opponent, State Sen. Roy M. Goodman '51, in at least eight different languages. For his part, Goodman--whom Farber describes as "a Lindsay clone"--has waged a yeomanlike battle against the Conservative nominee's barbs on one side, and massive desertions from his campaign staff on the other. It is an interesting fight: the sharp country boy matching phrases with the cool, statistic-laden Harvard grad. It is, however, strictly a battle...
...commonplace to note that New York, once one of the most intensely political towns in the country, is now in the midst of a perverse political lull. Gone are the flashy pretty-boys like John Lindsay, the debonair playboys like Jimmy Walker, the fiery sidewalk-thumpers like Fiorello LaGuardia and the mediocre but endearing swindlers like Bill O'Dwyer. The city that could once churn out Roosevelts and Wagners now contents itself with failed accountants like Abe Beame, who chased political shadows in the dark of a summer blackout. Mediocrity on an unprecedented scale. Yet even those ciphers seem awesome...
...CENTER COURT, the match is between the so-called "liberals." Rep. Edward I. Koch, the Democratic nominee who currently represents Lindsay's old Congressional district, again faces his opponent from last September's primary run-off, Secretary of State Mario M. Cuomo, now running on the Liberal line. Like so many New York mayoralty races, it is a contest of strange political bedfellows. Koch, the liberal, anti-war, gay-rights activitist, has assumed the status of favorite, riding the Democratic machine to a commanding lead in the most recent Daily News straw poll. Meanwhile, Cuomo, the centrist candidate who entered...
...afford to be. For all their burnt-out slums and depreciating bank notes, New Yorkers are a singularly immovable lot--and no political reformer, no matter how irresistable, can do anything about it. Koch sees this; anyone who saw the agony of the last few years of John Lindsay's administration has to know it. Of course, there are the minority groups: anyone who lives in Bedford Stuyvesant or the South Bronx cannot fail to want change. But most of the city is not the South Bronx--it is Flatbush and Canarsie, where the people like their Yankees...
...Palestinian rights), he then goes after the business vote, tilting with the powerful municipal unions--a group, oddly enough, that opposed him bitterly in the primary. Then comes the pitch for business incentives, hints of tax reductions, and the obligatory attack on the wasteful social programs of the Lindsay administration. It is an interesting litany for the knight of New York's liberal reformers, a pitch that might be heard coming from a Republican. A pitch, in fact, that is coming from the Republican--and from everyone else in the race...