Word: loner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...party is bigger than the man, which in itself could help damp down some of the G.O.P.'s intraparty differences. More important for the party's immediate prospects, Romney has already told Laird he would make that commitment. Though condemned by many party regulars as a loner and an opportunist who has used the G.O.P. but has no true allegiance to it, Romney has thus indicated his willingness to contend for the nomination from within the fold. Also, he has promised to go all out to elect Robert Griffin, the Republican candidate for Senator from Michigan...
...pianist, an intimate friend of Chopin and Liszt, and one of the finest post-Beethoven composers for piano. He was known as the Berlioz of the piano. His music reflected none of the warm rhapsodical reveries of Chopin and Liszt but, rather, foreshadowed Mahler and Bruckner. A moody, eccentric loner, Alkan retired from public life at 42 to study the Talmud, teach, and compose. One of the pieces he composed, curiously enough, was a funeral march for a parakeet...
...into the Main Point coffeehouse in Bryn Mawr, Pa., to hear Folk Singer Buffy Sainte-Marie. In a trade plagued by imitators studiously imitating each other, Buffy Sainte-Marie is uniquely herself. To begin with, she is a full-blooded Cree Indian. As such, she grew up a moody loner in a white man's world, she took lessons from no one, listened to no records, has had little truck with the chummy folk fraternity. She writes her own songs, and at 23 she is the most intriguing young folk singer to emerge in many a moon...
...Preacher." Ambition helps, of course-and so does a degree of ruthlessness. Though Moyers is a natural loner with the sort of drive that would probably propel him to the top in any milieu, even his closest rivals for the President's favor have never accused him of using his influence unfairly. One official, who admitted recently to having "goofed one," said that Moyers went in to tell the President about it-without a word about who had actually made the blunder. "Johnson gave him a terrific chewing out," he recalls. "Moyers just stood there and took...
...LONER (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). Lloyd Bridges in a post-bellum Western dramatic series...