Word: moynihan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vote their convictions on subsequent ballots. When a scant twelve delegates rallied to his tardily raised banner, Buckley withdrew to concentrate on his reelection race. Mused New York G.O.P. Chairman Richard Rosenbaum: "He got out just in time." Buckley stands to have trouble in November beating either Pat Moynihan or Bella Abzug, who are contesting for the Democratic nomination. If he loses and the Ford-Dole ticket is swamped, Buckley may well play a major role in forming an ideologically pure right-wing party...
...claiming that the nation is as free a state as one can find in Africa. The only mystery about this article is not why The Times ran it, but what is the real name of the author of this pile of crud? Is "Alexander Harrison" really Daniel P. Moynihan? or is it Nixon? This latter guess is where the smart money is going...
...revealed that the solution to the West's problems is a more confident ruling class that can remake a world whose students have resolved "to do less for King and Country," words that reveal the extent of Moynihan's devotion to democracy. There is no point to looking for leadership from anyone besides the educated class, "for it would not work and it will not happen." Imagine what would have happened if the United States had not "failed in South East Asia, disgraced at its very center, shriveling at every perimeter...
...mood of the Commencement Week was alienating; it seemed like freshman week all over again, the best-forgotten days when we were all impressed with Harvard and took it seriously, when we felt like human beings of a higher order because here we were, mere freshmen, listening to Pat Moynihan in Sanders Theater speaking about Joseph Schumpeter and Lionel Trilling...
...learned in the intervening years had evaporated, leaving no perspective on Harvard. My classmates were instant alumni, believing that Harvard does indeed stand for good manners and truth and the threatened freedoms of liberal democracy. Those with a higher vision had become the freaks; the inside belonged to Pat Moynihan and defenders of liberal democracy like the elderly woman who angrily mounted the steps of Widener after the AHA ceremony to try to knock down the protesters' bedsheet banner that read, "Moynihan Preaches Democracy But Supports Dictatorships...