Word: lochinvar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...young Lochinvar is come out of the West...
...political Lochinvar has most recently appeared in the form of clean-shaven, well-dressed, steely-eyed George Romney, erstwhile president of American Motors and now Republican candidate for the governorship of Michigan. In the drama and suddenness of his rise to political prominence, he is in the great American tradition of Woodrow Wilson, Wendell Willkie and Dwight Eisenhower...
What is most striking about Romney as a Lochinvar-figure, however, is that, like Eisenhower, he has achieved political prominence in a time of no great domestic crisis. In this sense, Romney's emergence as a national figure has come less because it answers a real national need than because the internal state of American politics renders it very opportune. Republican leaders are running their party on "stop-gap" measures. As was pointed out in a special study of the Republican Party published last week, the party is in complete organizational disorder, from the understaffed precinct offices to the ideological...
...success as governor. But it will probably not be just because he has irresistibly captured the American imagination. Though no-one liked to say so, everybody got a little tired of Eisenhower after a while. The day of the conquering hero may be past, and the voice of the Lochinvar may be no more heard in the land...