Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That at least is how the dramatic moment at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue was envisaged by Broadway Playwright Neil Simon (The Odd Couple, Plaza Suite) and Comedians Tony Randall and Larry Blyden, who performed the skit before 19,000 cheering Eugene McCarthy fans in New York City's Madison Square Garden last week. As the star-fraught spectacular showed, politics this year has attracted an extraordinary input of pulchritude and intellect. In no other election have so many actors, singers, writers, poets, artists, professional athletes and assorted other celebrities signed up, given out and turned on for the candidates...
...Republican nomination has been to break out of his stereotype as a narrow sectarian, to show that he can appeal to enough Democrats and independents to convert the Republican minority into an election-day majority. His radio speech was aimed squarely at that wider audience. And at a moment of national dissension, any new, constructive note of national unity can only be welcome...
...fact is that a poll, like a photograph, is accurate ' only at the moment it is taken. Moreover, there is usually a lag of a week or two between the time that interviewers ask their questions and the time that the results are analyzed and published. In the interim, public attitudes may be radically changed by all kinds of events. Although the latest Gallup poll shows Robert Kennedy's popularity declining, for example, this reading may be outdated because it was taken before Kennedy's primary victories in Indiana and Nebraska, which in turn may be outdated...
...crisis-laden Fourth Republic. As a result of the revolt, most French political experts feel that the Gaullist party will never again place enough members in the National Assembly to form a working majority. If the present Assembly were dissolved at any time soon, the feeling at the moment among most French politicians is that the so-called combined left?Communists plus Mitterrand's assortment of Socialists-would command a solid majority in which the Communist ratio would be higher than it is now. At present, it is 73 Reds v. 121 Socialists. As a result, Communist leverage...
...result, speculation about France's political future inevitably centers on who might win the presidency après De Gaulle. Mitterrand, while effective with other politicians, has a slightly tarnished "old pol" image among French voters. Similarly, the candidates from the right?Pompidou, Giscard d'Estaing?for the moment, at least, seem to have little appeal to French voters. The man that some politicians in Paris were mentioning last week as a possible successor to De Gaulle is a vintage statesman who served well in some of the most dif ficult moments of the Fourth Republic: Pierre Mendès-France...