Word: oblivion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...serve to limit his future role in active politics. If he loses, he does not seem the sort of man who will become an active voice for moderate Republicanism: at heart, he is not a crusader. Yet it appears equally unlikely that Ken Keating will slip silently into oblivion. Somewhere, somehow, he will remain in public service...
...daughter listens passively to his wandering verbiage, then walks wordlessly away from him. His wife attacks him savagely on the phone, and he opts not to go home again. He learns that the bar association has initiated measures to have him disbarred. He seizes a moment of sweaty oblivion with the switchboard operator, but that is the only kind of success left...
...Conservatism is at a crossroads." So goes the common thinking. If the Goldwater-Miller ticket is defeated, as appears likely, then, it is reasoned, "conservatism" will sink into political oblivion. Having been given the "choice" they so long clamored for and having had their choice soundly rejected, the conservatives will quietly disappear from sight...
...openly split on Communist ideology, Mao Tse-tung's high command has been quietly cracking down on everyone rash enough to question the hard-line Marxism separating him from the hated Khrushchev revisionists. Apparently, the purges have not been too successful, for last week the shadow of dialectic oblivion was falling on Mao's two most influential victims so far, and it had be gun to look as if the biggest public brainwash since 1957 was not far away...
...Silverstein and his delicatessen have since passed into oblivion. But Charles Harting Percy did not. He applied himself, worked hard and persevered, and by dint of luck and pluck became a wealthy, successful businessman who is now the Republican candidate for Governor in his home state of Illinois, and-who knows?-may become something even bigger before he turns 50. To this day, Percy recalls his conversation with Mr. Silverstein. "I've never forgotten this," he says, "because he was right. It's fun working when you're working for yourself. Having your own equity, working your...