Word: mcgoverns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FRESHMEN LIVING IN Harvard Yard don't slam their doors on the Nixon canvassers that come to talk with them. But the Nixon canvassers soft that a strong McGovern Democrat can answer their questions and watch them leave without ever realizing that the interviewers were Nixon workers...
...most common attitude that Thoreson encountered was an apathetic inclination toward McGoverns Harley A. Peyton '76 characterized himself more as "negative Nixon" than pro-McGovern, and proceeded to say that "Nixon has done some admirable things" while McGovern has "made an awful lot of mistakes--like the Eagleton thing." But Peyton and about 70 per cent of all freshmen (according to a Freshman Council survey) support the Democratic candidate...
...nearly 1,000,000 Americans who have been physically attacked this year, President Nixon's statement in Atlanta last week must have sounded strange, even as election-year hyperbole. Any victim of criminal violence was more likely to be moved by the question Senator George McGovern posed to a campaign crowd in New York. "I want to ask you," said the Democratic candidate, "do you feel safer after four years of Richard Nixon? Mr. Nixon and his Administration are [trying to] mask a record of astounding failure in the field of crime behind a veil of law-and-order...
...Nixon-inspired war on crime has been directed beyond front-line measures. "The whole program operates on the assumption that crime is a superficial rash," says Harvard Law Professor James Vorenberg, former executive director of the President's crime commission, and now an adviser to George McGovern. "Continuing denial of opportunity, combined with the anonymity of city life, is destroying the social pressure to abstain from crime." Guessing that the odds against catching the average burglar "are no better than 50 to 1," Vorenberg suggests that "crime may seem like a good bet for those whose lives are little...
...chairperson of Senator McGovern's task force on the environment," begins Robert N. Rickles' letter to constituents. Chairperson? The title is no partisan issue: the G.O.P. also had a chairperson in Miami Beach. Thus another label comes unglued. The man and his woman are Out; the neuter "person" is In-and only the chair is allowed to linger undisturbed. Chairperson is just the latest exchange in that great linguistic bazaar where new terms are traded for old. The elderly "Mrs." and the shy "Miss" now curtsy to the crisp, swinging "Ms." "Congressone" has been suggested in federal corridors...