Word: mcgoverns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CORPSE of the McGovern campaign, bloodbrowned and biodegrading, has been twice mashed into compost in the past week by the country's leading Democrat. With the subtlety of a retreating army, Senator Kennedy has abandoned hard-fought liberal positions in a drive to improve his position...
...Westwood--fell Saturday before the party's labor and oil forces, discreetly egged on by the senior Senator from Massachusetts. Westwood, who had reduced regular Democrats to fury in her pursuit of reformism, was replaced by Robert Strauss, a John Connally crony only loosely committed to quotes and other McGovern inventions. Strauss pointedly mentioned that his stewardship had Kennedy's approval...
...People section of TIME [Nov. 6] the following item appeared. "While Mailer waxed outrageous and his audience enthusiastically heckled. . . he dropped such nuggets as. . . 'Most women have just started to think in the last two or three years,' (and) 'McGovern is the only man who is morally superior to me.' Finally Mailer invited 'all the feminists in the audience to please hiss.' When a satisfying number obliged, he commented: 'Obedient little bitches...
...suggests I said "Obedient little bitches" at the end of the evening, when in fact I said it at the beginning. How ever, let me not pick TIME's nits. One correction may serve as a key to the general accuracy of your reporting: I did not say "McGovern is the only man who is morally superior to me." Rather I said some thing more like this: "We live among our family and acquaintances in a kind of moral economy. Perhaps we look upon half our friends as morally superior to us, and the other half as moral inferiors...
...about as exciting as watching the Nixon-McGovern election returns. For the handful of fans that sat through last night's Harvard-MIT fencing mismatch, there was never much doubt about who would come out on top. Harvard took 1 7-2 lead in the first round, and coasted to an overwhelming 22-5 win over the Engineers...