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Perhaps the most intriguing political approach was made in Virginia, where a veteran, tireless and salty campaigner, Henry Howell, won the race for lieutenant governor by running as an independent. Accusing his Democratic and Republican opponents of purveying "political Pablum," he championed the "little man" against the "big boys" in a campaign that was full of the flavor of bygone populism. He played down the race question, taking a less fervent stand against busing than his opponents. He concentrated on issues that would appeal to unaffluent blacks and whites alike: utility and insurance rates, hospitalization costs, the state...
...sure to be taken as more Pablum for permissiveness," Agnew said...
...persecution in Washington, San Diego, and on countless army bases throughout the nation, provides one of the most intriguing stories in the history of the Movement. Coming at a time when many of the once-great micropolitan dailies are consolidating into huge monopolies that fabricate vast chains of syndicated pablum, the underground press is providing a growing and piquantly creative alternative for an increasingly vocal subculture. And the success of papers in such unlikely places as Richmond, Va., testifies that even the straight world is becoming interested in the counter-culture newspapers...
Such parents feel in effect that a baby who wets his diapers or hurls his Pablum at the ceiling is demonstrating that they are failures as parents. One young mother went into an all-day fit of hysterics because her young son refused to keep his coat on outdoors. Another told Colorado's investigators: "I have never felt really loved all my life. When the baby was born, I thought he would love me. When he cried, it meant he didn't love...
...Pablum & Tranquilizers. Bobby rapidly developed his own style, blending hard proposals, double-edged wit and a tough platform manner. The Johnson dropout deprived him of his prime target, but Hubert Humphrey soon provided another. Kennedy seized on H.H.H.'s "politics of joy" slogan to offer his own contrast: "If you want to be filled with Pablum and tranquilizers," he said in Detroit's John F. Kennedy Square last week, "then you should vote for some other candidate." Again: "Let's not have tired answers. If you see a small black child starving to death in the Mississippi Delta...