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...This would be a Pyrrhic victory the candidate might win," said Nixon, "but the Republican President would soon have another war on his hands." Nixon took note of the growing peace sentiment within the U.S. but added that the task for a presidential contender is not to pander to this sentiment but to exert forceful leadership...
...town-it was, all things considered, a model of discretion: Tart squatted in the middle of the stage while the sound track made appropriate noises. "We had to keep that scene," says Lebel. "We're not at liberty to emasculate a work of art in order to pander to bourgeois sentiment." Still, he would have felt better if there had been just a few cries of moral outrage on opening night. "The fact that there's so much opposition to the kind of thing we're doing," he explains, "is what gives me faith that...
Vile Appetites. The place with the wildest reputation is Ocean City, which was founded by Methodist clergymen in the late 19th century as "a moral seaside resort which must be run in the interests of our holy Christianity." Ocean City still bans alcoholic beverages ("We cannot pander to vile appetites or propensities"), but just two miles across the causeway is Somers Point-and it has 18 bars. After sunning all day at Ocean City and partying all night at Somers Point, the conclusion is frequently sexual. Says Ann Williams, a 23-year-old medical technician: "The kids think nothing...
Salerno's attitude is typical--the people down at WHRB's studo in the basement of Mem Hall refuse to prostitute their taste and pander to the people at large. WHRB has a fixed image, and they are proud and defensive about it. No rock 'n' roll ever comes over their air, and the word they use most often to describe themselves, and their listeners, is "esoteric". "We have an eclectic, esoteric, kind of programming," says Joe Erlanger '67, this year's Station Manager. Another member modestly asserts that WHRB'S programming standards classical jazz, and folk music "the finest...
Nonetheless, popular demand for another quiz has been great, but this time we have decided to pander to the apparent ignorance of our readers with the simple-minded questions listed below. Anyone who submits all the correct answers before Monday will win undying fame as well as a slightly warped copy of Billie and Lillie's "The Greasy Spoon...