Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Never in Uruguay's 143-year history had an election been cast in such apocalyptic terms. As 1,700,000 Uruguayan voters-an impressive 87% of the electorate-trooped to the polls last week, the full-page political advertisements in the country's hotly partisan newspapers fairly screamed. NOW YOU CAN CHOOSE...
...Christ entitled The Greatest Musical Ever Sung: this year they've turned to the slightly less miraculous career of Richard Milhous Nixon in order to churn out a sequel. However, a good deal of the check has disappeared in making the transition from the purportedly profane to the presumably partisan. Nixon!, exclamation point or no exclamation point, is certainly nothing to write your home congressman about...
Kiss-and-Tell. As a rule, [MORE] does not allow a contributor to write about his own publication, in effect preventing both partisan gripes and possible reprisal. Newspaper chiefs complain with some justification that many of the new journalism reviews are primarily kiss-and-tell operations in which staffers write about personal grudges...
...booths next November, forced to make a decisive judgment about the case. For the episode does indeed raise a serious question about Kennedy's potential behavior in the White House. One of the "boiler room" girls who attended the party that night has long been a Kennedy partisan. But she muses: "He's seen two brothers killed, and the Chappaquiddick thing has happened. How stable can anybody be in light of all that...
...pending in the Senate. The A.B.A., which rates each one before confirmation, found 72 "well qualified" or "extremely well qualified"; not a single nominee was ruled out as "not qualified." John Kennedy managed to nominate eight men whom the A.B.A. blackballed, and Lyndon Johnson four. Nixon has followed the partisan tradition in picking his candidates. Of his nominees, 90% are Republicans. Johnson put up 94% Democrats, Kennedy 91%; Dwight Eisenhower named 93% Republicans...