Word: mendell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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South Carolina Democrat L. Mendel Rivers, whose House Armed Services Committee will write the legislation, at first seemed opposed to the President's program, in particular to the lottery idea, which under present circumstances would become a form of Viet Nam roulette. Rivers had employed his own advisory panel, which flatly rejected any system of random selection, and the chairman apparently differed with the President on other points as well...
Congressmen on the other side of the debate were equally vociferous. South Carolina Democrat L. Mendel Rivers, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, called on the Administration to blast Hanoi off the map. Georgia Democrat Richard Russell, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, accused Lyndon Johnson of conduct "almost unseemly for the President of the U.S." for having "fluttered around" with peace feelers...
...proof, she offers the story of Meyer Benjamin Meyer and his only crony, Mendel Berg. Middle-aged and resolutely unglamorous, they cower behind their jobs as history professors, publishing judgments on the past, but utterly unable to embrace the present. They wander aimlessly through the narrow corridors of New York universities and the narrow-minded cocktail parties of the city...
...surprise, Mendel escapes by courting a deeply disturbed woman. When he marries her and takes on fresh responsibilities, he finds himself free. Given the same sort of opportunity, Meyer remains trapped. He falls in love with Lena, a middle-aged sculptor, but when the time comes to declare himself, he retreats into his customary caution-waiting, watching, chary before choice. Then at last Lena does him a favor-she dies. At her funeral, Meyer surveys her friends. "Terrible people," he tells himself later. "Terrible. I should never have gotten involved." He never will again...
...after another, a dozen of his fellow Democrats rose on the House floor last week to laud the Speaker's virtues. "A kind man, a Christian, a gentleman," intoned Oklahoma's Carl Albert. "No human being has ever been more human," chimed in South Carolina's Mendel Rivers. "When the history of this era is written," apostrophized Louisiana's Hale Boggs, "no name will loom larger...